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Is Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection life long?

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Peer-reviewed

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https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/297528

Repository DOI

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.44583
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Article

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Authors

Ramakrishnan, Lalita  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0692-5533

Abstract

People with immunoreactivity to tuberculosis are thought to have lifelong asymptomatic infection and remain at risk for active tuberculosis. Marcel A Behr and colleagues argue that most of these people are no longer infected

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Keywords

AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections, Antigens, Bacterial, Humans, Immunocompromised Host, Immunosuppression Therapy, Latent Tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Tissue Transplantation, Tuberculosis, Virus Activation

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BMJ

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Journal ISSN

0959-8146
1756-1833

Volume Title

367

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BMJ

Publisher DOI

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l5770

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Attribution 4.0 International
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Wellcome Trust (103950/Z/14/Z)
National Institutes of Health (NIH) (7R37A1054503-13)

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