Prevalence and clinical relevance of helminth co-infections among tuberculosis patients in urban Tanzania

Background Helminth infections can negatively affect the immunologic host control, which may increase the risk of progression from latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection to tuberculosis (TB) disease and alter the clinical presentation of TB. We assessed the prevalence and determined the clinica...

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Principais autores: Francis Mhimbira, Jerry Hella, Khadija Said, Lujeko Kamwela, Mohamed Sasamalo, Thomas Maroa, Magreth Chiryamkubi, Grace Mhalu, Christian Schindler, Klaus Reither, Stefanie Knopp, Jürg Utzinger, Sébastien Gagneux, Lukas Fenner
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: 2017
Acesso em linha:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005342
https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0005342&type=printable
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