Incidence of active pulmonary tuberculosis in patients with coincident filarial and/or intestinal helminth infections followed longitudinally in South India.
Filarial (and other helminth) infections are known to modulate mycobacteria-specific pro-inflammatory cytokine responses necessary for maintaining latency in tuberculosis (TB). We sought to address whether helminth co-infection alters progression to active pulmonary TB in a co-endemic area of South...
Main Authors: | Soumya Chatterjee, Chockalingam Kolappan, Rangasamy Subramani, Punnathanathu G Gopi, Vedhachalam Chandrasekaran, Michael P Fay, Subash Babu, Vasanthapuram Kumaraswami, Thomas B Nutman |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3984271?pdf=render |
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