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Tuberculin skin test and interferon-gamma release assay values are associated with antimicrobial peptides expression in  polymorphonuclear cells during latent tuberculous infection

It has been reported that patients with progressive tuberculosis (TB) express abundant amounts of the antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) cathelicidin (LL-37) and human neutrophil peptide-1 (HNP-1) in circulating cells, whereas latent TB infected donors showed no differences when compared with purified pr...

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Autores principales: Castañeda-Delgado, Julio E, Cervantes-Villagrana, Alberto, Serrano-Escobedo, Carmen J, Frausto-Lujan, Isabel, Rivas-Santiago, Cesar, Enciso-Moreno, Jose A, Rivas-Santiago, Bruno
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4131785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24937049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0074-0276140348