Table 1.

Patient characteristics.

Patient number	Age (years)	Wt (kg)	Gender	HIV	HAART	ART therapy	CD4 (cells/μl)	Creatinine (μmol/l)	Globulin (g/l)	Steroid allocation	Pericardial protein (g/l)	ADA (units/l)	TB microscopy
1	28	53	male	Positive	No	N/A	115	76	46	Placebo	58	Hemolyzed	Positive
2	29	40	female	Positive	No	N/A	50	20	45	Placebo	54	83	Positive
3	24	66	female	Positive	No	N/A	42	43	56	Prednisolone	68	57	Positive
4	56	82	male	Negative	N/A	N/A	485	121	30	Placebo	62	133	Positive
5	31	72	male	Negative	N/A	N/A	319	82	36	Prednisolone	55	119	Positive
6	51	53	female	Positive	Yes	Tdf/FTC/EFV	159	80	56	Placebo	50	53	Negative
7	24	45	female	Positive	No	N/A	321	257	56	Placebo	67	92	Positive
8	27	66	female	Positive	No	N/A	135	45	55	Prednisolone	70	26	Positive
9	44	52	female	Positive	No	N/A	139	65	56	Prednisolone	66	51	Negative
10	59	66	male	Negative	N/A	N/A	874	97	38	Prednisolone	62	33	Negative
11	45	70	male	Negative	N/A	N/A	721	109	47	Placebo	76	32	Negative
12	33	47	male	Positive	No	N/A	116	71	49	Placebo	61	130	Positive
13	25	73	male	Positive	No	N/A	a	73	a	Placebo	55	38	Positive
14	27	a	female	Positive	Yes	Tdf/FTC/EFV	255	41	74	Placebo	76	68	Negative

^aData not available.