"Characterization of Cytokine Production from Patients with Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to a joint meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the American Society for Investigative Pathology, and the American Association of Immunologists, held June 2-6, 1996, in New Orleans, Louisiana, "Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis has emerged as a challenging clinical problem in both HIV infected and uninfected individuals. The cellular immune response through the elaboration of specific cytokines is important in host protection. Our interest was in determining whether a quantitative defect(s) in cytokine production might exist in these patients. PBMCs taken from HIV negative, MDR infected patients were...

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