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Investigation of environmental and host-related risk factors for tuberculosis in Africa. II. Investigation of host genetic factors.
American journal of epidemiology - 1 Jun 2002
Bennett S, Lienhardt C, Bah-Sow O, Gustafson P, Manneh K, Del Prete G, Gomes V, Newport M, McAdam K, Hill A
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In an accompanying paper (Am. J. Epidemiol. 2002;155:1066-73), the authors describe the design of a large multicenter study being carried out in three West African countries for investigation of the roles of environmental and host-related factors in the development of tuberculosis. In this paper, the authors review some evidence that host genetic factors play a role in susceptibility to tuberculosis. They...
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