Study of some T regulatory cell subsets in patients with multi-drug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis

Background: Regulatory T-cells are CD4+ cells involved in the regulation of suppression of immune response during infection. Many studies revealed that the number of these cells, increase in patients with active pulmonary TB (PTB. Few studies addressed this problem in MDR-PTB. Objective: This work a...

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Main Authors: Sayed Labib, Nermine El-Maraghi, Soha Younes, Lobna Metwally, Omar Dessouki, Nader Nemr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2013-10-01
Series:Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis
Subjects:
CD4
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0422763813001726