Gender-Dependent Differences in Plasma Matrix Metalloproteinase-8 Elevated in Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Tarangini Sathyamoorthy; Gurjinder Sandhu; Liku B. Tezera; Richard Thomas; Akul Singhania; Christopher H. Woelk; Borislav D. Dimitrov; Dan Agranoff; Carlton A. W. Evans; Jon S. Friedland; Paul T. Elkington

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0117605

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Gender-Dependent Differences in Plasma Matrix Metalloproteinase-8 Elevated in Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Tarangini Sathyamoorthy,

Affiliation Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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Gurjinder Sandhu,

Affiliation Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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Liku B. Tezera,

Affiliation NIHR Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Clinical and Experimental Sciences Academic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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Richard Thomas,

Affiliation The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, United Kingdom
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Akul Singhania,

Affiliation NIHR Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Clinical and Experimental Sciences Academic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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Christopher H. Woelk,

Affiliation NIHR Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Clinical and Experimental Sciences Academic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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Borislav D. Dimitrov,

Affiliations NIHR Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Clinical and Experimental Sciences Academic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Primary Care and Population Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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Dan Agranoff,

Affiliations Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom
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Carlton A. W. Evans,

Affiliations Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Microbiology, Universidad Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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Jon S. Friedland,

Affiliation Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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Paul T. Elkington

* E-mail: p.elkington@soton.ac.uk

Affiliations Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, NIHR Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Clinical and Experimental Sciences Academic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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Gender-Dependent Differences in Plasma Matrix Metalloproteinase-8 Elevated in Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Tarangini Sathyamoorthy,
Gurjinder Sandhu,
Liku B. Tezera,
Richard Thomas,
Akul Singhania,
Christopher H. Woelk,
Borislav D. Dimitrov,
Dan Agranoff,
Carlton A. W. Evans,
Jon S. Friedland

Published: January 30, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117605

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