Enhanced responses to mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens by human alveolar lymphocytes during active pulmonary tuberculosis

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 178, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1434-1445

  Schwander, Stephan K ^a   Torres, Martha ^a   Sada, Eduardo ^a   Carranza, Claudia ^a   Ramos, Esther ^a   Tary Lehmann, Magdalena ^a   Wallis, Robert S ^a   Sierra, Juan ^a   Rich, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LYMPHOCYTES; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TH1 CELLS; TUBERCULIN; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0031724656     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314454     Document Type: Article

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