Serum concentrations of cytokines in patients with active tuberculosis (TB) and after treatment

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 110-113

  Verbon, A ^a,d   Juffermans, N ^a,b   Van Deventer, S J H ^b   Speelman, P ^a   Van Deutekom, H ^c   Van Der Poll, T ^a,b  

^a Division of Infectious Diseases   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MUNICIPAL HEALTH SERVICE   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-12; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-5; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0032946398     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1999.00783.x     Document Type: Article

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