Prevalence and clinical relevance of helminth co-infections among tuberculosis patients in urban Tanzania

BACKGROUND: Helminth infections can negatively affect the immunologic host control, which may increase the risk of progression from latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection to tuberculosis (TB) disease and alter the clinical presentation of TB. We assessed the prevalence and determined the clinic...

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Autores principales: Mhimbira, Francis, Hella, Jerry, Said, Khadija, Kamwela, Lujeko, Sasamalo, Mohamed, Maroa, Thomas, Chiryamkubi, Magreth, Mhalu, Grace, Schindler, Christian, Reither, Klaus, Knopp, Stefanie, Utzinger, Jürg, Gagneux, Sébastien, Fenner, Lukas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5319816/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28178325
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005342

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5319816/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28178325
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005342

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