Immune Responses to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis-Specific Antigen ESAT-6 Signal Subclinical Infection among Contacts of Tuberculosis Patients

Diagnosis of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is considered essential for tuberculosis control but is hampered by the lack of specific reagents. We report that strong recognition of tuberculosis complex-specific antigen ESAT-6 by healthy household contacts of tuberculosis patients correla...

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Hauptverfasser: Doherty, T. Mark, Demissie, Abebech, Olobo, Joseph, Wolday, Dawit, Britton, Sven, Eguale, Tewodros, Ravn, Pernille, Andersen, Peter
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: American Society for Microbiology 2002
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Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes
Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC153355/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11826002
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.40.2.704-706.2002
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