Local IFN-γ responses in TB [2]

Thorax

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 788-789

  Breen, R A M ^a,b   Hopkins, S ^a   Lipman, M C I ^a   Cropley, I ^a   Janossy, G ^b  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CORTICOSTEROID; ETHAMBUTOL; GAMMA INTERFERON; ISONIAZID; MYCOBACTERIUM ANTIGEN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ASCITES; ASCITES FLUID; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PARACENTESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS;

ADULT; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 24744438647     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2005.045302     Document Type: Letter

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