Severe undernutrition in children affects tuberculin skin test performance in Southern India.

Severe undernutrition in children affects tuberculin skin test performance in Southern India.

<h4>Background</h4>Undernutrition impairs immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is a risk factor for tuberculosis disease (TB). We aim to investigate if severe undernutrition affects the tuberculin skin test (TST) response among household contacts (HHCs) of pulmonary TB cases.<h4...

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Autores principales: Divya Reddy, Yicheng Ma, Subitha Lakshminarayanan, Swaroop Sahu, Laura F White, Ayiraveetil Reshma, Gautam Roy, Padmini Salgame, Selby Knudsen, Chelsie Cintron, Jerrold J Ellner, C Robert Horsburgh, Sonali Sarkar, Natasha S Hochberg
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Lenguaje:EN
Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/72c1abbf616249a18221f4d6874ad4e3
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