Empiric tuberculosis treatment and 12-month mortality among sputum GeneXpert-negative adults living with HIV in Uganda in the era of widespread antiretroviral therapy: A prospective cohort study

• Lydia Nakiyingi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: lydiakiyingi@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Makerere University Biomedical Research Centre, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7263-3198

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• Bernard Kikaire,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of General Virology, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

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• Sarah Nakayenga,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Makerere University Biomedical Research Centre, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• Louis Kamulegeya,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Makerere University Biomedical Research Centre, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• Elizabeth Nakabugo,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Makerere University Biomedical Research Centre, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• Juliet Nkugwa Asio,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General Virology, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

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• Bernard Bagaya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Willy Ssengooba,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1643-110X

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• Harriet Mayanja-Kizza,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• Yukari C. Manabe

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States of America

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