Confirmation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection by flow cytometry after ex vivo incubation of peripheral blood T cells with an ESAT-6-derived peptide pool

Cytometry Part B - Clinical Cytometry

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 47-53

  Tesfa, Lydia ^a   Koch, Franz Wilhelm ^b   Pankow, Wulf ^b   Volk, Hans Dieter ^a   Kern, Florian ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b VIVANTES KLINIKUM NEUKÖLLN   (Germany)

Author keywords

ESAT 6; Flow cytometry; Protein spanning peptide pools, peptides; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; EARLY SECRETORY ANTIGENIC TARGET 6; GAMMA INTERFERON; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INCUBATION TIME; LABORATORY TEST; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PEPTIDES; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 3042736836     PISSN: 15524949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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