C-reactive protein, Neopterin and Beta2 microglobulin levels pre and post TB treatment in The Gambia
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- 作者：Joseph Mendy ; Toyin Togun ; Olumuyiwa Owolabi ; Simon Donkor…
- 关键词：Activation markers ; TB therapy ; Point ; of ; care tests
- 刊名：BMC Infectious Diseases
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：December 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：16
- 期：1
- 全文大小：688 KB
- 刊物主题：Infectious Diseases; Parasitology; Medical Microbiology; Tropical Medicine; Internal Medicine;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2334
文摘
Background Tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Analysis of the host immune response may help with generating point-of-care tests for personalised monitoring. Thus, the aim of this study was to assess the relationship between immune activation markers: C-reactive protein (CRP), Beta2 microglobulin (B2M) and Neopterin, disease severity prior to treatment and response to therapy in adult pulmonary TB patients.