Detection of mycobacterial antigen responses in lung but not blood in HIV-tuberculosis co-infected subjects

AIDS

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1330-1332

  Breen, Ronan A M ^a,b   Janossy, George ^a   Barry, Simon M ^a,b   Cropley, Ian ^b   Johnson, Margaret A ^b   Lipman, Marc C I ^b  

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

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL COUNT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33745827419     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aids.0000232243.51286.32     Document Type: Article

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