Infection free "resisters" among household contacts of adult pulmonary tuberculosis.

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-con...

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Main Authors: Vidya Mave, Padmapriyadarshini Chandrasekaran, Amol Chavan, Shri Vijay Bala Yogendra Shivakumar, Kavitha Danasekaran, Mandar Paradkar, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Aarti Kinikar, Lakshmi Murali, Sanjay Gaikwad, Luke Elizabeth Hanna, Vandana Kulkarni, Sathyamoorthy Pattabiraman, Nishi Suryavanshi, Beena Thomas, Rewa Kohli, Gomathi Narayan Sivaramakrishnan, Neeta Pradhan, Brindha Bhanu, Anju Kagal, Jonathan Golub, Neel Gandhi, Akshay Gupte, Nikhil Gupte, Soumya Swaminathan, Amita Gupta, CTRIUMPH RePORT India Study Team
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218034

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218034

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