Short Communication Open Access
Volume 2 | Issue 4 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/immunology.2.039
Allicin as an Adjunct Immunotherapy against Tuberculosis
Samreen Fatima1, Ved Prakash Dwivedi2,*
- 1Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
- 2International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India
Corresponding Author
Ved Prakash Dwivedi, ved@icgeb.res.in
Received Date: May 04, 2020
Accepted Date: June 02, 2020
Fatima S, Dwivedi VP. Allicin as an Adjunct Immunotherapy against Tuberculosis. J Cell Immunol. 2020; 2(4): 178-182.
Copyright: © 2020 Fatima S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords
Allicin, Garlic, Tuberculosis, T cells, Immunomodulation, DOTS, Anti-oxidant, Anti-bacterial
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