| Literature DB >> 16365144 |
Alexandre Alcaïs1, Claire Fieschi, Laurent Abel, Jean-Laurent Casanova.
Abstract
Disseminated disease in children and pulmonary disease in adults constitute two major epidemiological and clinical forms of tuberculosis. Paradoxically, only a small fraction of infected individuals develop clinical tuberculosis, typically one form of the disease or the other. Mendelian and complex genetic predispositions to tuberculosis were reported recently in children and adults, respectively. Here, we argue that tuberculosis and its clinical expression largely reflect the underlying human genetic background.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16365144 PMCID: PMC2212964 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20052302
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Exp Med ISSN: 0022-1007 Impact factor: 14.307