- Abstract:
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SETTING: Out-patient clinic, Entebbe, Uganda. BACKGROUND: It has been proposed that 'type 1' cytokines are essential in protective immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and that suppression of 'type 1' or a switch to a 'type 2' profile is deleterious. We employed a simple assay to examine whether the dependence of the immunological responses to mycobacterial antigens on a range of explanatory factors could be determined in a population where tuberculosis is endemic. OBJECTIVE: To determine t...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Journal:
- The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
- Volume:
- 3
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 239-247
- Publication date:
- 1999-03-05
- EISSN:
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1815-7920
- ISSN:
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1027-3719
- URN:
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uuid:967083e6-80ed-456b-bedc-bcd5719e4203
- Source identifiers:
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484187
- Local pid:
- pubs:484187
- Copyright date:
- 1999
Journal article
The immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in HIV-infected and uninfected adults in Uganda: application of a whole blood cytokine assay in an epidemiological study.
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