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Host iron redistribution as a risk factor for incident tuberculosis in HIV infection: an 11-year retrospective cohort study.
BMC infectious diseases - 29 Jan 2013
McDermid Joann M, Hennig Branwen J, van der Sande Marianne, Hill Adrian V S, Whittle Hilton C, Jaye Assan, Prentice Andrew M
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BACKGROUND: Identifying people at higher risk of developing tuberculosis with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection may improve clinical management of co-infections. Iron influences tuberculosis (TB) pathogenesis, but understanding the exact mechanisms of how and timing of when iron is involved remains challenging since biological samples are rarely available from the disease susceptibility period due to...
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