High levels of anti-tuberculin (IgG) antibodies correlate with the blocking of T-cell proliferation in individuals with high exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Liliana Encinales¹  Edmond J. Yunis¹  Tatiana S. Rodriguez-Reyna²  Karen Bobadilla³  Joaquin Zuñiga³  Gustavo Ramírez-Martínez³  Alfredo Cruz-Lagunas³  Eduardo Márquez³  Luis Jiménez-Alvarez³  Marcelo Fernandez-Vina⁴  Edmond J. Feris⁵  Julio Granados⁶  Joel N.H. Stern⁷  Carlos Awad⁸  Inna Tabansky⁹  Julio Granados-Montiel^1,10 

[1] Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA;Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico;Department of Immunology, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Mexico City, Mexico;Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA;Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA;Department of Transplantation, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición, Mexico City, Mexico;Departments of Neurology and Science Education, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Hempstead, New York, USA;Hospital Santa Clara, Bogotá, Colombia;The Rockefeller University, New York, USA;Tissue Engineering, Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine Research Unit, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación, Mexico City, Mexico;

关键词: Tuberculosis;    Mycobacterium tuberculosis;    Latent tuberculosis;    Humoral immunity;    Anti-tuberculin antibodies;    T-cell proliferation;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.ijid.2015.12.004

来源: DOAJ

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