Prevalence of primary immunodeficiency syndromes in tuberculous meningitis: A case-control study

• Main Authors: Abhishek Shridhar (Author), Ravindra Kumar Garg (Author), Imran Rizvi (Author), Mili Jain (Author), Wahid Ali (Author), Hardeep Singh Malhotra (Author), Neeraj Kumar (Author), Praveen Kumar Sharma (Author), Rajesh Verma (Author), Ravi Uniyal (Author), Shweta Pandey (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: Only a proportion of patients with tuberculosis develop tuberculous meningitis. We hypothesize that inherent abnormalities in the host's innate or adaptive immune system may affect the outcome in tuberculous meningitis. In this study, we evaluated the proportion of underlying primar...