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In Vitro Assay to Evaluate the Impact of Immunoregulatory Pathways on HIV-specific CD4 T Cell Effector Function
Published on: October 15, 2013
Comparison of interferon gamma and interferon gamma-inducible protein-10 secretion in HIV-tuberculosis patients
Basirudeen S A Kabeer1, Rajasekaran Sikhamani, Alamelu Raja
1Department of Immunology, Tuberculosis Research Centre, India.
Abstract:
Interferon gamma (IFNgamma)-based in-vitro assays have suboptimal sensitivity, especially in immunocompromised individuals, which emphasizes the need for alternative markers for tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis. We compared TB antigens-specific IFNgamma and IFNgamma-inducible protein-10 levels in culture of whole blood samples from HIV-TB patients. We report that IFNgamma-inducible protein-10 detects a greater number of HIV-TB cases than IFNgamma and suggest that IFNgamma-inducible protein-10 may be a better alternative marker for latent TB infection diagnosis among immunocompromised individuals.
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