Severe undernutrition in children affects tuberculin skin test performance in Southern India

BACKGROUND: Undernutrition impairs immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is a risk factor for tuberculosis disease (TB). We aim to investigate if severe undernutrition affects the tuberculin skin test (TST) response among household contacts (HHCs) of pulmonary TB cases. METHODS: We analyzed dat...

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Publicado no:PLoS One
Main Authors: Reddy, Divya, Ma, Yicheng, Lakshminarayanan, Subitha, Sahu, Swaroop, White, Laura F., Reshma, Ayiraveetil, Roy, Gautam, Salgame, Padmini, Knudsen, Selby, Cintron, Chelsie, Ellner, Jerrold J., Horsburgh, C. Robert, Sarkar, Sonali, Hochberg, Natasha S.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8284816/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34270546
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250304
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