Rapid diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis by T cell-based assays on peripheral blood and cerebrospinal fluid mononuclear cells

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1349-1358

  Kim, Sung Han ^a   Cho, Oh Hyun ^a   Park, Su Jin ^a   Lee, Eun Mi ^a   Kim, Mi Na ^a   Lee, Sang Oh ^a   Choi, Sang Ho ^a   Kim, Yang Soo ^a   Woo, Jun Hee ^a   Lee, Sang Ahm ^a   Kang, Joong Koo ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CYTOLOGY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; ADULT; ANIMALS; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL;

EID: 77951870457     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652142     Document Type: Article

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