Impact of Co-Infections and BCG Immunisation on Immune Responses among Household Contacts of Tuberculosis Patients in a Ugandan Cohort

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis incidence in resource poor countries remains high. We hypothesized that immune modulating co-infections such as helminths, malaria, and HIV increase susceptibility to latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), thereby contributing to maintaining the tuberculosis epidemic. METHODS...

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izdano v:PLoS One
Main Authors: Biraro, Irene A., Egesa, Moses, Toulza, Frederic, Levin, Jonathan, Cose, Stephen, Joloba, Moses, Smith, Steven, Dockrell, Hazel M., Katamba, Achilles, Elliott, Alison M.
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Jezik:Inglês
Izdano: Public Library of Science 2014
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Online dostop:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221037/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25372043
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111517
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