Journal of Clinical and Cellular Immunology
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Violette Dirix

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• Research Article
  Immunological Signatures Identifying Different Stages of Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection and Discriminating Latent from Active Tuberculosis in Humans
  Author(s): Kaatje Smits, Veronique Corbiere, Violette Dirix, Leila Mekkaoui, Chloe Wyndham-Thomas, Myriam Libin, Alexandra Dreesman, Marc Loyens, Marie- Christine Payen, Mahavir Singh, Camille Locht and Françoise Mascart Kaatje Smits, Veronique Corbiere, Violette Dirix, Leila Mekkaoui, Chloe Wyndham-Thomas, Myriam Libin, Alexandra Dreesman, Marc Loyens, Marie- Christine Payen, Mahavir Singh, Camille Locht and Françoise Mascart
  
  Objectives: One third of the world population is considered latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (LTBI) and sterilizing this reservoir of bacteria that may reactivate is required for tuberculosis (TB) elimination. The group of individuals with LTBI is heterogeneous with some of them being more at risk to develop TB disease than others. Improved diagnosis of subjects with LTBI is needed, allowing to differentiate subjects with LTBI from those with active TB, and to select among LTBI subjects those who are more at risk to develop active TB. We have characterized at the cellular level both the quantitative and qualitative T cell responses to different mycobacterial antigens in selected populations of infected subjects in order to identify new biomarkers that could help to identify M. tuberculosis-infected subjects and to stratify them in ri.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-9899.1000341

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