Long-lived immune response to early secretory antigenic target 6 in individuals who had recovered from tuberculosis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1336-1340

  Wu Hsieh, Betty A ^a   Chen, Chung Kwang ^a,b   Chang, Jer Hwa ^c   Lai, Show Yun ^a   Wu, C H Herbert ^a   Cheng, Wern Cherng ^d   Andersen, Peter ^e   Doherty, T Mark ^e  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Taipei Municipal Women and Children's Hospital   (Taiwan)

^c CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e Statens Serum Institute   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARLY SECRETORY ANTIGENIC TARGET 6; GAMMA INTERFERON; MYCOBACTERIUM ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BCG VACCINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0035887905     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/323044     Document Type: Article

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