Plasma Levels of Neopterin and C-Reactive Protein (CRP) in Tuberculosis (TB) with and without HIV Coinfection in Relation to CD4 Cell Count.

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Published in PLoS One on December 02, 2015

Authors

Sten Skogmar1, Thomas Schön2,3, Taye Tolera Balcha1,4, Erik Sturegård5, Marianne Jansson6,7, Per Björkman1

Author Affiliations

1: Infectious Disease Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
2: Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
3: Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious diseases, Kalmar County Hospital, Kalmar, Sweden.
4: Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
5: Medical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
6: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
7: Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

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