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[Indices of cell-mediated immunity in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis presenting with different haptoglobin phenotypes].
Likars'ka sprava - 1 Jan 2000
Platonova I L, Sakhelashvili M I
Abstract excerpt
A comprehensive immunological evaluation was conducted together with phenotyping of haptoglobin (Hp) in 373 patients with freshly detected pulmonary tuberculosis. A marked suppression of T-cellular and antituberculous immunity has been shown to be the case in those patients presenting with Hp 2-2 phenotype of haptoglobin, which fact suggests to us a linkage between the bodily immunity status in patients with...
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