Immunolocalization of cell-wall-deficient forms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in sarcoidosis and in sinus histiocytosis of lymph nodes draining carcinoma

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 683-694

  Alavi, H A ^a   Moscovic, E A ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b HARLEM HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cell wall deficient mycobacteria; Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex; pleomorphic chromogens; sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CHROMOGENIC SUBSTRATE; CYTOKERATIN; DESMIN; FERRITIN; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN; LYSOZYME; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN S 100; TUBULIN; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SINUS HISTIOCYTOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CARCINOMA; CELL WALL; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOSIS, SINUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYSOSOMES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PHENOTYPE; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030062226     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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