Zinc supplementation in tuberculosis patients has been shown to improve early sputum smear conversion, increase serum zinc and haemoglobin levels, and enhance nutritional status. It may help accelerate recovery by boosting immune response and supporting better clinical outcomes. However, zinc does not significantly increase overall TB treatment success rates. Supplementation is considered more beneficial for improving prognostic markers rather than altering final cure rates.

I call upon all concerned researchers to do needful to thwart completely the menace of the disease - tuberculosis. Only collaborative research on tuberculosis may unravel its true pathogenesis and may eradicate this public health problem. It may spread as an opportunistic pathogen in many immunocompromised disease conditions. I request all concerned researchers to go through my publications on tuberculosis diagnostics and the effects of zinc supplementation on those diagnostics and definitely to put their valuable critical comments on those papers.

Very interesting study! The findings on zinc supplementation improving TB biomarkers (SOD, GS, ChE) are promising and deserve further multicenter validation. Thank you for sharing this important work.