Article
[Human mycobacterial infections: impact of host genetic factors].
Revue medicale de Liege - 1 Mar 2002
Plancoulaine S, Alcaïs A, Abel L, Casanova J L
Abstract excerpt
Humans are exposed worldwide to a variety of environmental mycobacteria (EM) and most children are inoculated with live Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine. Although rarely pathogenic, poorly virulent mycobacteria, including BCG and most EM, may cause a variety of clinical diseases. M. tubercul...
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