Plasma vitamins and essential trace elements in newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis patients and at different durations of anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy

Tuberculosis (TB) is a public health challenge worldwide and advancement of latent TB to active disease and drug resistant TB is on the increase as a result of immune suppression induced by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. There are empirical evidences relating immune suppression and malnutrition. To imp...

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Main Authors: V.F. Edem, O. Ige, O.G. Arinola
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2015-07-01
Series:Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0422763815201318