New tests for tuberculosis: Local immune responses have greater specificity

Thorax

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 4-5

  Bothamley, Graham H ^a  

^a HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURE FILTRATE PROTEIN 10; EARLY SECRETORY ANTIGENIC TARGET 6; TUBERCULIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CFP 10 PROTEIN, MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; CFP-10 PROTEIN, MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; ESAT 6 PROTEIN, MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; ESAT-6 PROTEIN, MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CULTURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EDITORIAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LUNG LAVAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 38349167512     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2007.084202     Document Type: Editorial

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