Antibiotic therapy cures infection predominantly by killing the infecting pathogen, but for infections such as tuberculosis (TB), which are accompanied by chronic inflammation, the salutary effects of antibiotic therapy may reflect a combination of pathogen killing and microbiome alteration. This question has not been examined in humans due to the difficulty in dissociating the immunologic effects of antibiotic induced pathogen clearance and microbiome alteration. We analyzed sputum TB bacterial load, microbiome composition, and peripheral blood transcriptomics from a clinical trial (NCT02684240) comparing two antimicrobial therapies for tuberculosis, only one of which was clinically effective. We confirm that standard TB therapy (HRZE) rapidly depletes Clostridia from the intestinal microbiota. The antiparasitic drug nitazoxanide (NTZ), although ineffective in reducing Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) bacterial load in the sputum, caused profound alterations to host microbiome composition overlapping with alterations generated by HRZE. We then evaluated the effect of these two treatments on the TB driven inflammatory state and found that whereas HRZE normalized proinflammatory TB-associated gene sets, NTZ exacerbated these pathways. Using Random Forest Regression, we identify both pathogen sterilization and microbiome disruption as the top predictors of changes in TB-associated inflammatory transcriptomic markers. We then validate the observed microbiome-peripheral gene expression associations in an independent human cohort of healthy subjects in which the abundance of Clostridia was positively associated with homeostatic, and negatively associated with pro-inflammatory pathways, while the abundance of Bacilli and Proteobacteria species displayed the opposite trend. Our findings indicate that antibiotic-induced reduction in pathogen burden and changes in the microbiome are independently associated with treatment-induced changes of the inflammatory response of active TB, and more broadly indicate that response to antibiotic therapy may be a combined effect of pathogen killing and microbiome driven immunomodulation. Additionally, to our knowledge, this is the first analysis to directly test the hypothesis that the microbiome composition is associated with peripheral gene expression inflammatory profile in humans.