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Whole Blood Interferon-Gamma Responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Antigens in Young Household Contacts of Persons with Tuberculosis in Uganda
BACKGROUND: Due to immunologic immaturity, IFN-γ-producing T cell responses may be decreased in young children compared to adults, thus we hypothesized that IFN-γ responses to mycobacterial antigens in household contacts exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) would be impaired in young children...
Autores principales: | Lewinsohn, Deborah A., Zalwango, Sarah, Stein, Catherine M., Mayanja-Kizza, Harriet, Okwera, Alphonse, Boom, W. Henry, Mugerwa, Roy D., Whalen, Christopher C. |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2560997/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18923705 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003407 |
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