Use of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex-specific antigen cocktails for a skin test specific for tuberculosis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3606-3610

  Lyashchenko, Konstantin ^a   Manca, Claudia ^a   Colangeli, Roberto ^a   Heijbel, Anna ^b   Williams, Alan ^c   Gennaro, Maria Laura ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GE Healthcare Bio Sciences AB   (Sweden)

^c Amersham Biosciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEST; TUBERCULIN TEST;

EID: 0031852772     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.8.3606-3610.1998     Document Type: Article

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