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Potential Role for IL-2 ELISpot in Differentiating Recent and Remote Infection in Tuberculosis Contact Tracing

Interferon (IFN)-γ release assays (IGRA) have improved tuberculosis contact tracing, but discrimination of recent from remote Mycobacterium tuberculosis contacts is not possible by IGRA alone. We present results of a tuberculosis contact investigation with a new early-secretory-antigenic-target (ESA...

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Autores principales: Krummel, Benjamin, Strassburg, Alan, Ernst, Martin, Reiling, Norbert, Eker, Barbara, Rath, Heidrun, Hoerster, Robert, Wappler, Waltraud, Glaewe, Andrea, Schoellhorn, Volker, Sotgiu, Giovanni, Lange, Christoph
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2907387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20652022
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011670