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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2015-07-01
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Series: | Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0422763815201318 |