... are the main source of infection in a community. Only 10% of individuals develop clinical disease. The immune response in the remaining individuals only succeeds in containing the infection, ... of TB remain unclear in the Chinese population. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the KIR genes in PTB patients and con-trols using sequence-specic primer polymerase chain reaction ... Medicine, Shandong Provincial Hospital Afliated to Shandong University, Shandong University, Jinan, China2Department of Infection Control, Shandong Provincial Chest Hospital, Jinan, China3Department...