Hidden TB risks: study links diet, diabetes, and parasites to latent infection

NCT ID NCT04526613

First seen Jun 27, 2026 ยท Last updated Jun 27, 2026

Summary

This study explored why some people with latent (inactive) tuberculosis (TB) are more likely to develop active TB. Researchers looked at 626 people in South India to see how malnutrition, diabetes, and worm infections might change the body's response to TB. Participants gave blood, urine, and stool samples and had physical exams. The goal was to better understand these risk factors, not to test a new treatment.

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Conditions

The condition(s) this trial relates to.

diabetes mellitus helminthiasis latent tuberculosis infection Malnutrition nutritional deficiency disease Trematode Infections tuberculosis

As listed by the trial registrant

The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.

Contacts and locations

Locations

  • National Institute for Research In Tuberculosis, International Centers for Exel

    Chennai, India