Early innate immunity determines outcome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis pulmonary infection in rabbits

BACKGROUND: Pulmonary infection of humans by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), results in active disease in 5-10% of individuals, while asymptomatic latent Mtb infection (LTBI) is established in the remainder. The host immune responses that determine this di...

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Autores principales: Subbian, Selvakumar, Bandyopadhyay, Nirmalya, Tsenova, Liana, O’Brien, Paul, Khetani, Viraj, Kushner, Nicole L, Peixoto, Blas, Soteropoulos, Patricia, Bader, Joel S, Karakousis, Petros C, Fallows, Dorothy, Kaplan, Gilla
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3765177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23958185
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-811X-11-60

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