Transcriptional blood signatures distinguish pulmonary tuberculosis, pulmonary sarcoidosis, pneumonias and lung cancers.

New approaches to define factors underlying the immunopathogenesis of pulmonary diseases including sarcoidosis and tuberculosis are needed to develop new treatments and biomarkers. Comparing the blood transcriptional response of tuberculosis to other similar pulmonary diseases will advance knowledge...

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Main Authors: Chloe I Bloom, Christine M Graham, Matthew P R Berry, Fotini Rozakeas, Paul S Redford, Yuanyuan Wang, Zhaohui Xu, Katalin A Wilkinson, Robert J Wilkinson, Yvonne Kendrick, Gilles Devouassoux, Tristan Ferry, Makoto Miyara, Diane Bouvry, Dominique Valeyre, Guy Gorochov, Derek Blankenship, Mitra Saadatian, Phillip Vanhems, Huw Beynon, Rama Vancheeswaran, Melissa Wickremasinghe, Damien Chaussabel, Jacques Banchereau, Virginia Pascual, Ling-Pei Ho, Marc Lipman, Anne O'Garra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3734176?pdf=render