Cellular immune responses to cell wall peptidoglycan associated protein antigens in tuberculosis patients and healthy subjects

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 495-502

  Dhiman, Neelam ^a   Verma, Indu ^a   Khuller, Gopal Krishan ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Cell wall proteins; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Phagocytic index; Proliferative response

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030833556     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1997.tb01883.x     Document Type: Article

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