Tuberculin immunotherapy: its history and lessons to be learned

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 99-105

  Vilaplana, Cristina ^a,b   Cardona, Pere Joan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCOBACTERIUM VACCINE; TUBERCULIN;

ECONOMIC ASPECT; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFECTION CONTROL; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM VACCAE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL ASPECT; TUBERCULOSIS;

HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; TUBERCULIN; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS VACCINES;

EID: 75149152825     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2009.10.006     Document Type: Short Survey

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