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Loss of Receptor on Tuberculin-Reactive T-Cells Marks Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis

BACKGROUND: Tuberculin-specific T-cell responses have low diagnostic specificity in BCG vaccinated populations. While subunit-antigen (e.g. ESAT-6, CFP-10) based tests are useful for diagnosing latent tuberculosis infection, there is no reliable immunological test for active pulmonary tuberculosis....

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Autores principales: Streitz, Mathias, Tesfa, Lydia, Yildirim, Vedat, Yahyazadeh, Ali, Ulrichs, Timo, Lenkei, Rodica, Quassem, Ali, Liebetrau, Gerd, Nomura, Laurel, Maecker, Holden, Volk, Hans-Dieter, Kern, Florian
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1936433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17710135
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000735