Abstract
Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a known adverse effect of both anti-tuberculosis (anti-TB) and antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. Recent studies highlight the implications of genetic predispositions to DILI. We performed a case-control study to identify Human Leukocyte Antigen-B (HLA-B) variant alleles associated with anti-TB and ARV co-treatment induced liver toxicity in Ethiopian TB and HIV co-infected patients. A total of 495 newly diagnosed TB and HIV co-infected patients were enrolled and received rifampicin based anti-TB and efavirenz based ARV therapy. Change in liver enzyme level from baseline was monitored 1st, 2nd, 4th, 8th, 12th, and 24th weeks after treatment initiation to identify patients who developed DILI (cases) and those who did not (treatment tolerants). Genomic DNA from 46 cases and 46 sex and age matched treatment tolerants were genotyped for HLA-B variant alleles using Olerup SSP®HLA-B DNA Typing Kits. The proportion of HLA-B*57 allele carriers in DILI cases (37.0%), particularly in those who developed cholestatic type of DILI (44.8%) was significantly higher compared with those who tolerated the treatment (2.2%). The HLA-B*57 allele frequency was significantly higher in cases (25%) than treatment tolerants (1.1%). In a multivariate logistic analysis, the proportion of patients carrying HLA-B*57 (P = 0.002) and HLA-B*14 (P = 0.014) alleles were significantly higher in DILI cases compared with treatment tolerants. HLA-B*57 was significantly associated with cholestatic (P = 0.001) and mixed (P = 0.017) types of liver toxicity, and mild-to-moderate severity (P = 0.001). Of all HLA-B*57 alleles detected, HLA-B*57:03 accounted 58.3% and HLA-B*57:02 accounted 41.7%. HLA-B*57:01 was not detected. The variant allele frequencies of HLA-B*57:03 (15.2 vs. 0%) and HLA-B*57:02 (9.8 vs. 1.1%) were significantly higher in the DILI cases than treatment tolerants (P < 0.03). We conclude that HLA-B*57 alleles (B*57:03 and B*57:02) confer susceptibility to the development of anti-TB and ARV drugs co-treatment induced liver toxicity, which is mainly of cholestatic type. The possible association of HLA-B*14 with anti-TB and ARV drugs co-treatment induced liver toxicity requires further investigations.
Highlights
Tuberculosis (TB) is the most common opportunistic infection associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and co-treatment of the two diseases is recommended (Harries et al, 2009)
A total of 92 TB and HIV co-infected patients on anti-TB and ARV drugs co-treatment were involved in this study; 46 treatment induced liver toxicity cases and 46 sex and age matched treatment tolerants
More than half of the Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) cases developed the cholestatic type of liver toxicity, and 85% of the cases had mild-to-moderate severity of liver toxicity
Summary
Tuberculosis (TB) is the most common opportunistic infection associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and co-treatment of the two diseases is recommended (Harries et al, 2009). Antiretroviral (ARV) and anti-tuberculosis (anti-TB) Drugs-induced liver injury (DILI) is a common adverse event, which can be fatal if therapy is not interrupted or changed on time (Devarbhavi et al, 2013; Naidoo et al, 2015; Shamanna et al, 2016). A recent study in TB/HIV patients on anti-TB and antiretroviral therapy (ART) with high levels of immune activation demonstrated impaired isoniazid clearance, implicating the need for exploring immune response and the risk of DILI (Vinnard et al, 2016). Identifying genetic markers for drug-induced liver toxicity is valuable to identify high-risk patients and to introduce appropriate measures
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