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Immunogenicity of antigens from the TbD1 region present in M. africanum and missing from "modern" M. tuberculosis: a cross- sectional study

BACKGROUND: Currently available tools cannot be used to distinguish between sub-species of the M. tuberculosis complex causing latent tuberculosis (TB) infection. M. africanum causes up to half of TB in West- Africa and its relatively lower progression to disease suggests the presence of a large res...

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Autores principales: de Jong, Bouke C, Hammond, Abdulrahman, Otu, Jacob K, Antonio, Martin, Adegbola, Richard A, Ota, Martin O
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2821388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20085647
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-11