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Helminth Infection Increases the Probability of Indeterminate QuantiFERON Gold in Tube Results in Pregnant Women

Background. Approximately one-third of the world population is infected with M. tuberculosis and helminths (Kariminia et al. (2009), Walson et al. (2010)). Pregnancy and Helminth infection are known to suppress the T(H)1 response (Kariminia et al. (2009), Elias et al. (2006)) on which the QuantiFERO...

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Autores principales: Gebreegziabiher, Dawit, Desta, Kassu, Howe, Rawleigh, Abebe, Markos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3950403/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24701572
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/364137