Incidence of Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Patients with Coincident Filarial and/or Intestinal Helminth Infections Followed Longitudinally in South India

BACKGROUND: Filarial (and other helminth) infections are known to modulate mycobacteria-specific pro-inflammatory cytokine responses necessary for maintaining latency in tuberculosis (TB). We sought to address whether helminth co-infection alters progression to active pulmonary TB in a co-endemic ar...

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Main Authors: Chatterjee, Soumya, Kolappan, Chockalingam, Subramani, Rangasamy, Gopi, Punnathanathu G., Chandrasekaran, Vedhachalam, Fay, Michael P., Babu, Subash, Kumaraswami, Vasanthapuram, Nutman, Thomas B.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3984271/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24728010
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094603
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