Role of alpha-crystallin, early-secreted antigenic target 6-kDa protein and culture filtrate protein 10 as novel diagnostic markers in osteoarticular tuberculosis

Osteoarticular tuberculosis constitutes about 3% of all tuberculosis cases. Early and accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis is a challenging problem especially in the case of osteoarticular tuberculosis owing to the lower number of bacilli. However, an accurate and timely diagnosis of the disease resul...

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Published in:	Journal of Orthopaedic Translation
Main Authors:	Nazia Rizvi, Ajai Singh, Manish Yadav, Syed Rizwan Hussain, Salma Siddiqui, Vineet Kumar, Sabir Ali, Avinash Agarwal
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2016-07-01
Subjects:	active phase extrapulmonary tuberculosis latent-phase proteins osteoarticular tuberculosis
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214031X16000140