Mycobacteria
"Lack of Skin Test Reactivity to Common Mycobacterial Antigens in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infected Individuals with High CD4 Counts."
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, October 21st, 1996
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Thorax, "Background: T-cell response to mycobacterial antigens may be directed against those antigens common to all mycobacteria (group i), those restricted to slow (group ii) or fast growers (group iii), or those which are species- or subspecies-specific (group iv). These responses were assessed by skin testing patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and healthy controls with reagents derived from different strains of mycobacteria. Methods: Skin test responses to new tuberculins prepared from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, M. avium serotypes 4 and 8, and either M....
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