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Resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among highly TB exposed South African gold miners

BACKGROUND: Despite high exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a small proportion of South African goldminers resist TB infection. We determined, among long-service gold miners i) the proportion who were TB uninfected and ii) epidemiological factors associated with being uninfected. METHODS: We en...

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Autores principales:	Chihota, Violet N., Ntshiqa, Thobani, Maenetje, Pholo, Mansukhani, Raoul, Velen, Kavindhran, Hawn, Thomas R., Wallis, Robert, Grant, Alison D., Churchyard, Gavin J., Fielding, Katherine
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2022
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8932619/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35302992 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265036

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