机构:Environmental Health Sciences Dept., School of Hygiene/Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
DANNENBERG, AM
机构:
[1] Environmental Health Sciences Dept., School of Hygiene/Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
来源:
HOSPITAL PRACTICE
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1993年
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28卷
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01期
关键词:
D O I:
10.1080/21548331.1993.11442738
中图分类号:
R5 [内科学];
学科分类号:
1002 ;
100201 ;
摘要:
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.