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Does tuberculosis threaten our ageing populations?

BACKGROUND: The global population is ageing quickly and our understanding of age-related changes in the immune system suggest that the elderly will have less immunological protection from active tuberculosis (TB). DISCUSSION: Ongoing global surveillance of TB notifications shows increasing age of pa...

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Autores principales: Byng-Maddick, Rachel, Noursadeghi, Mahdad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4787032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26968654
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-1451-0