Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific cellular immune profiles suggest bacillary persistence decades after spontaneous cure in untreated tuberculosis

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 202, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1685-1689

  Millington, Kerry A ^a   Gooding, Sarah ^b   Hinks, Timothy S C ^c   Reynolds, D John M ^b   Lalvani, Ajit ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURE FILTRATE PROTEIN 10; EARLY SECRETORY ANTIGENIC TARGET 6; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2;

AGED; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENGLAND; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-2; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 78649564118     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/656772     Document Type: Article

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