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Immunopathogenesis of pulmonary tuberculosis

A M Dannenberg Jr. Hosp Pract (Off Ed). 1993.

Abstract

Antimicrobial therapy quickly eradicates susceptible bacilli, but the fight against drug-resistant disease must be waged entirely by host defenses. Knowledge of the two main types of immune response against tuberculosis and of how to manipulate those mechanisms--leading to precisely designed recombinant BCG vaccines--is essential to mounting an effective attack on the current epidemic.

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