Reduced plasma albumin concentrations have been reported in states of chronic infection such as TB, HIV, Hep B and C (Olawumi and Olatunji [2006], Akinpelu et al. [2012], Zia and Shankar [2012]) and as a result, there are suggestions for its use as a prognostic marker in pretreated HIV and TB patients (Feldman et al. [2003], Graham et al. [2007], Sudfeld et al. [2013], Alvarez-Uria et al. [2013]). Here, ALB is linked to tuberculosis.