Is <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> infection life long?
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 31649096.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1136/bmj.l5770 and PMC identifier 6812595.
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Abstract
People with immunoreactivity to tuberculosis are thought to have lifelong asymptomatic infection and remain at risk for active tuberculosis. <b>Marcel A Behr and colleagues</b> argue that most of these people are no longer infected
Medical subject headings
- Latent Tuberculosis