Infection free “resisters” among household contacts of adult pulmonary tuberculosis

Despite substantial exposure to infectious pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) cases, some household contacts (HHC) never acquire latent TB infection (LTBI). Characterizing these “resisters” can inform who to study immunologically for the development of TB vaccines. We enrolled HHCs of culture-confirmed adu...

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Autores principales: Mave, Vidya, Chandrasekaran, Padmapriyadarshini, Chavan, Amol, Shivakumar, Shri Vijay Bala Yogendra, Danasekaran, Kavitha, Paradkar, Mandar, Thiruvengadam, Kannan, Kinikar, Aarti, Murali, Lakshmi, Gaikwad, Sanjay, Hanna, Luke Elizabeth, Kulkarni, Vandana, Pattabiraman, Sathyamoorthy, Suryavanshi, Nishi, Thomas, Beena, Kohli, Rewa, Sivaramakrishnan, Gomathi Narayan, Pradhan, Neeta, Bhanu, Brindha, Kagal, Anju, Golub, Jonathan, Gandhi, Neel, Gupte, Akshay, Gupte, Nikhil, Swaminathan, Soumya, Gupta, Amita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6638997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31318864
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218034

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6638997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31318864
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218034

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