Racial differences in susceptibility to infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 307-312

  Fares, Auda ^a  

^a S Johannes Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

African; caucasian; ethnicity; race; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VITAMIN D;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC RISK; HEREDITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84870284555     PISSN: 17556783     EISSN: 09746005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1755-6783.102032     Document Type: Article

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