Analysis: Is Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection Life Long?

Is Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection life long? – The BMJ (free)

Commentaries: Tuberculous infection is not life-long in most people – University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (free) AND In the absence of a true test for latent TB we need shorter, safer preventive treatments – The BMJ Opinion (free)

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People with immunoreactivity to tuberculosis are thought to have lifelong asymptomatic infection and remain at risk for active tuberculosis. Is this assumption valid? Marcel A Behr and colleagues argue that most of these people are no longer infected https://t.co/LlRcMNlriJ

— The BMJ (@bmj_latest) October 27, 2019