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Quantitative and qualitative profiles of circulating monocytes may help identifying tuberculosis infection and disease stages.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
La Manna Marco Pio, Orlando Valentina, Dieli Francesco, Di Carlo Paola, Cascio Antonio, Cuzzi Gilda, Palmieri Fabrizio, Goletti Delia, Caccamo Nadia
Abstract excerpt
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most important cause of morbidity and death among infectious diseases, and continuous efforts are needed to improve diagnostic tools and therapy. Previous published studies showed that the absolute cells number of monocytes or lymphocytes in peripheral blood or yet the ratio of monocytes to lymphocytes displayed the ability to predict the risk of active TB. In the present study we...
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