Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Mutated immune gene increases TB risk for African Americans - Baylor College of Medicine

"We spend a lot of energy screening for tuberculosis and treating the people who test positive," she said. "It would be better to know who among those who test positive are most at risk of developing the disease. Then we could focus more attention on that group."

Not everyone who is infected with tuberculosis bacteria actually end up developing the disease. This article gets technical but is good reading.

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