Background Depression is a common comorbidity of tuberculosis (TB) and is associated with poor adherence to treatment of multiple disorders. We conducted a systematic review to synthesize the existing evidence on the relationship between depression and negative outcomes of TB treatment. Methods We systematically reviewed studies that evaluated depressive symptoms (DS) directly or indirectly through psychological distress (PD) and measured negative treatment outcomes of drug-sensitive pulmonary TB, defined as death, loss to follow-up, or non-adherence. Sources included PubMed, Global Health Library, Embase, Scopus and Web of Science from inception to August 2019. Results Of the 2,970 studies initially identified, eight articles were eligible for inclusion and two were used for the primary outcome meta-analysis. We found a strong association between DS and negative TB treatment outcomes (O...

We would like to show our appreciation to the medical personnel at Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, for assistance in sample collections and analysis of QuantiFERON® TB-Gold Plus test. We thank the Bioinformatics and Expression Analysis core facility (BEA) at Karolinska Institute that preformed the sequencing analysis. We thank the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at National Supercomputing Centre (NSC), Linköping University for the computing systems enabling the data handling, partially funded by the Swedish Research Council through grant agreement No. 2018-05973. The work was supported by grants from the Swedish Research Council No. 2018-04246 and the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica CONCYTEC and Cienciactiva No. 106-2018-FONDECYT. J.D is a postdoctoral fellow supported ...