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Multiple Cytokines Are Released When Blood from Patients with Tuberculosis Is Stimulated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis Antigens

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2011

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Kathryn L. Kellar, Jennifer Gehrke, Stephen E. Weis, Aida Mahmutovic-Mayhew, Blachy J. Dávila Saldaña, Margan J. Zajdowicz, Robin T. Scarborough, Philip LoBue, Alfred Lardizabal, Charles L. Daley,
PLoS ONE

Abstract

Multiple cytokines are released when whole blood from patients with CCTB is stimulated with Mtb antigens. Measurement of multiple cytokine responses may improve diagnostic sensitivity for Mtb infection compared with assessment of IFN-γ alone.

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