1.Organization WH: Global tuberculosis report 2015: World Health Organization; 2015.
2.Zumla A, George A, Sharma V, Herbert N: WHO’s 2013 global report on tuberculosis: successes, threats, and opportunities. The lancet 2013, 382(9907):1765–1767.
3.BaleZoneHealthDepartment: Bale zone health department annual report. In.; 2015.
4.Davies PD: The world-wide increase in tuberculosis: how demographic changes, HIV infection and increasing numbers in poverty are increasing tuberculosis. Annals of medicine 2003, 35(4):235–243.
5.Bacelo AC, Ramalho A, Brasil PE, dos Santos Cople-Rodrigues C, Georg I, Paiva E, Argolo SVL, Rolla VC: Correction: Nutritional Supplementation Is a Necessary Complement to Dietary Counseling among Tuberculosis and Tuberculosis-HIV Patients. PloS one 2015, 10(10):e0140737.
6.Dodor E: Evaluation of nutritional status of new tuberculosis patients at the effia-nkwanta regional hospital. Ghana medical journal 2008, 42(1):22.
7.Miyata S, Tanaka M, Ihaku D: The prognostic significance of nutritional status using malnutrition universal screening tool in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. Nutrition journal 2013, 12(1):42.
8.Alam I, Larbi A, Pawelec G: Nutritional status influences peripheral immune cell phenotypes in healthy men in rural Pakistan. Immunity & Ageing 2012, 9(1):16.
9.Shetty N, Shemko M, Vaz M, D’souza G: An epidemiological evaluation of risk factors for tuberculosis in South India: a matched case control study. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2006, 10(1):80–86.
10.Grobler L, Nagpal S, Sudarsanam TD, Sinclair D: Nutritional supplements for people being treated for active tuberculosis. The Cochrane Library 2016.
11.Mupere E, Malone L, Zalwango S, Chiunda A, Okwera A, Parraga I, Stein CM, Tisch DJ, Mugerwa R, Boom WH: Lean tissue mass wasting is associated with increased risk of mortality among women with pulmonary tuberculosis in urban Uganda. Annals of epidemiology 2012, 22(7):466–473.
12.Bhargava A, Chatterjee M, Jain Y, Chatterjee B, Kataria A, Bhargava M, Kataria R, D’Souza R, Jain R, Benedetti A: Nutritional status of adult patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in rural central India and its association with mortality. PloS one 2013, 8(10):e77979.
13.Dargie B, Tesfaye G, Worku A: Prevalence and associated factors of undernutrition among adult tuberculosis patients in some selected public health facilities of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study. BMC Nutrition 2016, 2(1):7.
14.Who EC: Appropriate body-mass index for Asian populations and its implications for policy and intervention strategies. Lancet (London, England) 2004, 363(9403):157.
15.De Onis M, Onyango A, Borghi E, Siyam A, Blössner M, Lutter C: Worldwide implementation of the WHO child growth standards. Public health nutrition 2012, 15(9):1603–1610.
16.Madebo T, Lindtjørn B: The impact of functional performance, HIV status, malnutrition, and clinical features on treatment outcomes of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. Ethiopian Journal of Health Development 2000, 14(2):177–182.
17.Van Lettow M, Harries AD, Kumwenda JJ, Zijlstra EE, Clark TD, Taha TE, Semba RD: Micronutrient malnutrition and wasting in adults with pulmonary tuberculosis with and without HIV co-infection in Malawi. BMC infectious diseases 2004, 4(1):61.
18.Shah S, Whalen C, Kotler DP, Mayanja H, Namale A, Melikian G, Mugerwa R, Semba RD: Severity of human immunodeficiency virus infection is associated with decreased phase angle, fat mass and body cell mass in adults with pulmonary tuberculosis infection in Uganda. The journal of nutrition 2001, 131(11):2843–2847.
19.Amrutha S, Sidesh B, Khanrunissa S: Nutritional status of TB cases registered under TB unit of Gulbarga city, India. Int J Bioassys 2013, 2(03):616–619.
20.Pirabbasi E, Najafiyan M, Cheraghi M, Shahar S, Abdul Manaf Z, Rajab N, Abdul Manap R: Predictors’ factors of nutritional status of male chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients. ISRN nursing 2012, 2012.
21.Piva SGN, Costa MdCN, Barreto FR, Pereira SM: Prevalence of nutritional deficiency in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia 2013, 39(4):476–483.
22.Kassu A, Yabutani T, Mahmud Z, Mohammad A, Nguyen N, Huong B, Hailemariam G, Diro E, Ayele B, Wondmikun Y: Alterations in serum levels of trace elements in tuberculosis and HIV infections. European journal of clinical nutrition 2006, 60(5):580.