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Host-pathogen specificity in tuberculosis.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2013
Di Pietrantonio Tania, Schurr Erwin
Abstract excerpt
The host response to mycobacterial infection including tuberculosis depends on genetically controlled host and bacterial factors and their interaction. A largely unknown aspect of this interaction is whether disease results from an additive and independent effect of host and pathogen or from specific host-pathogen combinations. The preferential association of specific mycobacterial strains with specific ethnic...
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