| Literature DB >> 17088357 |
Wonder P Drake1, Mary S Dhason, Michele Nadaf, Bryan E Shepherd, Sangeetha Vadivelu, Rana Hajizadeh, Lee S Newman, Spyros A Kalams.
Abstract
Sarcoidosis is an enigmatic disease with a pathology similar to that of tuberculosis. We detected Th-1 immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis ESAT-6 and KatG peptides from peripheral blood mononuclear cells from 15/26 sarcoidosis, 1/24 purified-protein-derivative-negative (PPD-) (P < 0.0001, Fisher's exact test), and 7/8 PPD-positive (PPD+) subjects (P = 0.21). This finding provides immunologic links between mycobacteria and systemic sarcoidosis.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 17088357 PMCID: PMC1828402 DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00732-06
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Immun ISSN: 0019-9567 Impact factor: 3.441