Diagnostic potential of an enzyme-linked immunospot assay in tuberculous pericarditis

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 874-877

  Bathoorn, E ^a   Limburg, A ^a   Bouwman, J J ^a   Bossink, A W ^a   Thijsen, S F ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ETHAMBUTOL; GAMMA INTERFERON; ISONIAZID; PREDNISOLONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CHEST TIGHTNESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; HEART AUSCULTATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEOPLASM; NIGHT SWEAT; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOUS PERICARDITIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PERICARDITIS;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS, TUBERCULOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955722980     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00031-11     Document Type: Article

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