Biomarkers for Treatment Monitoring in Tuberculosis: A New Hope
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Article history: Received 2 November 2017 Accepted 2 November 2017 Available online 3 November 2017 tion of new trial regimens. Therefore, there is an imperative need to identify blood based biomarkers that, if found valid, would improve the efficiency of this process (Nahid et al., 2011). Given this background, Sigal et al. have performed an elegant study of 70 different markers of infection, inflammation and metabolism in
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