Heterogeneity in tuberculosis

Nature Reviews Immunology 17, 691 (2017). doi:10.1038/nri.2017.69 Authors: Anthony M. Cadena, Sarah M. Fortune & JoAnne L. Flynn Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), results in a range of clinical presentations in humans. Most infections manifest as a clinically asymptomatic, contained state that is termed latent TB infection (LTBI); a smaller subset of infected individuals present with symptomatic,
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