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Association of immune responses to mycobacterium tuberculosis peptide antigens with host genetic factors.
Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology - 1 Dec 2006
Saad Abdel-Hakim, Ghor Mohamed Akmal El, Osman Ahmed, Sherbiny Maged Al, Zakaria Zinab
Abstract excerpt
A polymerase chain reaction (PCR), based on insertion sequence IS6110, was developed to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex organisms in the blood samples of 56 tuberculosis patients and 34 healthy controls. The early secreted antigenic target 6-KDa (ESAT-6) are used to stimulate T lymphocyte subsets from tuberculosis-infected patients and the correlation of these immune responses to the genetic factors...
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