Article
[Relationship of tuberculosis course in adolescents with acute phase blood proteins and genetic types of haptoglobin].
Problemy tuberkuleza - 1 Jan 1997
Kaminskaia G O, Firsova V A, Ovsiankina E S, Grigor'eva Z P, Grigor'eva E V
Abstract excerpt
The phenotype of haptoglobin (Hp) was determined and Hp and alpha 1-antitrypsin (alpha 1-AT) were many times measured in the sera of 131 adolescents with first identified tuberculosis. The phenotype of Hp was found to produce no effects on tuberculosis morbidity among adolescents, but Hp2-2 carri...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Antitubercular Agents
- Biomarkers
- Female
- Follow-Up Studies
- Haptoglobins
- Humans
- Male
- Phenotype
- Prognosis
- Tuberculosis
- alpha 1-Antitrypsin