Identification and characterization of the ESAT-6 homologue of Mycobacterium leprae and T-cell cross-reactivity with Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2544-2548

  Geluk, Annemieke ^a   Van Meijgaarden, Krista E ^a   Franken, Kees L M C ^a   Subronto, Yanri W ^a   Wieles, Brigitte ^a   Arend, Sandra M ^a   Sampaio, Elizabeth P ^a   De Boer, Tjitske ^a   Faber, William R ^a   Naafs, Ben ^a   Ottenhoff, Tom H M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EARLY SECRETORY ANTIGENIC TARGET 6; GAMMA INTERFERON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERODIAGNOSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CROSS REACTIONS; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; LEPROSY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0036121920     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.5.2544-2548.2002     Document Type: Article

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