Serum phosphorus levels in pulmonary tuberculosis.
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Serum phosphorus levels in pulmonary tuberculosis.
The mean level of phosphorus was significantly higher in a group of 96 Indonesian patients with pulmonary tuberculosis than in 100 control subjects. The levels in disease showed a moderate correlation with those of the globulin proteins, but not the gamma-globulins. There was an association between levels of phosphorus and those of transferrin but not with those of seven other acute-phase assoc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1984
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.60.704.394