Serum lipids as biomarkers for therapeutic monitoring of latent tuberculosis infection.

نویسندگان

  • Amr S Albanna
  • Kenneth Bachmann
  • Donald White
  • Chantal Valiquette
  • Dick Menzies
چکیده

Claudia M. Denkinger, Ioana Nicolau, Andrew Ramsay, Pamela Chedore and Madhukar Pai Division of Infectious Disease, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA. McGill International TB Centre and Dept of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, and Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Montreal Chest Institute, Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.Bute School of Medicine, St Andrews University, Fife, UK.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The European respiratory journal

دوره 42 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013