Peripheral T cell cytokine responses for diagnosis of active tuberculosis.

Peripheral T cell cytokine responses for diagnosis of active tuberculosis.

BACKGROUND: A test for diagnosis of active Tuberculosis (TB) from peripheral blood could tremendously improve clinical management of patients. METHODS: Of 178 prospectively enrolled patients with possible TB, 60 patients were diagnosed with pulmonary and 27 patients with extrapulmonary TB. The frequ...

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Main Authors: Johannes Nemeth, Heide-Maria Winkler, Ralph H Zwick, Catharina Müller, Rudolf Rumetshofer, Lucas Boeck, Otto C Burghuber, Stefan Winkler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3327656?pdf=render

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