Boosting effect of IL-7 in interferon gamma release assays to diagnose Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

BACKGROUND: A quarter of the world’s population is estimated to be infected with Myobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Infection is detected by immune response to M. tuberculosis antigens using either tuberculin skin test (TST) and interferon gamma release (IGRA’s), tests which have low sensitivity in im...

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Autores principales: Hiza, Hellen, Fenner, Lukas, Hella, Jerry, Kuchaka, Davis, Sasamalo, Mohamed, Blauenfeldt, Thomas, Kibiki, Gibson, Kavishe, Reginald A, Mhimbira, Francis, Ruhwald, Morten
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6114790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30157233
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202525

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6114790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30157233
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202525

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