Tuberculin skin test and in vitro assays provide complementary measures of antimycobacterial immunity in children and adolescents

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Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1071-1077

  Gallant, Caroline J ^a   Cobat, Aurelie ^b,c   Simkin, Leah ^a   Black, Gillian F ^d   Stanley, Kim ^d   Hughes, Jane ^f   Doherty, T Mark ^h   Hanekom, Willem A ^f   Eley, Brian ^g   Beyers, Nulda ^e   Jaïs, Jean Philippe ^c   Van Helden, Paul ^d   Abel, Laurent ^b,c,i   Alcaïs, Alexandre ^b,c   Hoal, Eileen G ^d   Schurr, Erwin ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d Faculty of Health Sciences   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^h STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

ⁱ ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; EARLY SECRETORY ANTIGENIC TARGET 6; GAMMA INTERFERON; TUBERCULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BLOOD; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHILD; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TIME; INFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; STAINING; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77951831599     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.09-1852     Document Type: Article

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