Tuberculin Skin Test Negativity Is Under Tight Genetic Control of Chromosomal Region 11p14-15 in Settings With Different Tuberculosis Endemicities

A substantial proportion of subjects exposed to a contagious tuberculosis case display lack of tuberculin skin test (TST) reactivity. We previously mapped a major locus (TST1) controlling lack of TST reactivity in families from an area in South Africa where tuberculosis is hyperendemic. Here, we con...

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Autores principales: Cobat, Aurélie, Poirier, Christine, Hoal, Eileen, Boland-Auge, Anne, de La Rocque, France, Corrard, François, Grange, Ghislain, Migaud, Mélanie, Bustamante, Jacinta, Boisson-Dupuis, Stéphanie, Casanova, Jean-Laurent, Schurr, Erwin, Alcaïs, Alexandre, Delacourt, Christophe, Abel, Laurent
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Major Articles and Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4279780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25143445
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiu446

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