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Immunogenicity of antigens from the TbD1 region present in M. africanum and missing from "modern" M. tuberculosis: a cross- sectional study.
BMC infectious diseases - 19 Jan 2010
de Jong Bouke C, Hammond Abdulrahman, Otu Jacob K, Antonio Martin, Adegbola Richard A, Ota Martin O
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BACKGROUND: Currently available tools cannot be used to distinguish between sub-species of the M. tuberculosis complex causing latent tuberculosis (TB) infection. M. africanum causes up to half of TB in West- Africa and its relatively lower progression to disease suggests the presence of a large...
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