Cytokine production in children with tuberculous infection and disease

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1290-1293

  Swaminathan, Soumya ^a,b   Gong, Jianhua ^a,b   Zhang, Ming ^a,b   Samten, Buka ^a,b   Hanna, Luke E ^a,b   Narayanan, Paranji R ^a,b   Barnes, Peter F ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN TUBERCULOSIS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032978878     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/514794     Document Type: Article

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