Anti-lactoferrin toxicity and elevated iron: The environmental prerequisites which activate susceptibility to tuberculosis infection?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 513-517

  Purdey, Mark ^a  

^a High Barn Farm   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM OXIDE; FERTILIZER; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; LACTOFERRIN; LEVAMISOLE;

DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOWN REGULATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INCIDENCE; IRON METABOLISM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS;

BOS TAURUS; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MAMMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 30344486658     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.09.027     Document Type: Article

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