Assessment of the influence of direct tobacco smoke on infection and active TB management
Author:
Altet, Neus; Latorre, Irene; Jiménez-Fuentes, María Ángeles; Maldonado, José; Molina, Israel; Milà, Celia; García-García, Esther; Villar-Hernández, Raquel; Laabei, Maisem; Gómez, Andromeda-Celeste; Godoy i García, Pere; de Souza-Galvão, Maria Luiza; Solano, Segismundo; Jiménez-Ruiz, Carlos A.; Domínguez, Jose
Notes:
Smoking is a risk factor for tuberculosis (TB) infection and disease progression. Tobacco smoking increases susceptibility to TB in a variety of ways, one of which is due to a reduction of the IFN-γ response. Consequently, an impaired immune response could affect performance of IFN-γ Release Assays (IGRAs).
Miguel Servet program of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Spain). ML was supported by a joint ERS/SEPAR fellowship (LTRF 2015). The research was partially supported by a grant from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (PI 13/01546 and PI 16/01912), integrated in the Plan Nacional de I+D+I and cofunded by the ISCIII Subdirección General de Evaluación and the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER); and a grant from the Sociedad Española de Neumología y Cirugía Torácica (SEPAR; Barcelona, Spain) (Smoking Integrated Research Programme Call) to NA.
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