Mycobacterium africanum elicits an attenuated t cell response to early secreted antigenic target, 6 kDa, in patients with tuberculosis and their household contacts

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 193, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1279-1286

  De Jong, Bouke C ^a,b   Hill, Philip C ^a   Brookes, Roger H ^a   Gagneux, Sebastien ^b,c   Jeffries, David J ^a   Otu, Jacob K ^a   Donkor, Simon A ^a   Fox, Annette ^a   McAdam, Keith P W J ^a   Small, Peter M ^c   Adegbola, Richard A ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CULTURE FILTRATE PROTEIN 10; EARLY SECRETORY ANTIGENIC TARGET 6; GAMMA INTERFERON; TUBERCULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERFERON TYPE II; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM; PSEUDOGENES; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 33646056428     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502977     Document Type: Article

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