The effect of mycobacterial mycolic acids on the cytokine profile of the immune response in murine tuberculosis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) , the etiological agent of tuberculosis, is an intracellular bacterium which persists within macrophages. Successful control of tuberculosis depends on T-cell-mediated immunity. Immune protection involves the development of a Th1 response characterised by...
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27807 Lombard, DC 2003, The effect of mycobacterial mycolic acids on the cytokine profile of the immune response in murine tuberculosis, MSc dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27807 > http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09072005-115430/ |