New tools to discriminate active from past tuberculosis: comparison of the response to RD1 antigens vs latency antigens

D. Goletti, O. Butera, V. Vanini, T. Chiacchio, E. Petruccioli, S. Carrara, K. L. M. C Franken, T. H. M. Ottenhoff, E. Girardi (Rome, Italy; Leiden, Netherlands)

Source: Annual Congress 2009 - Frontiers in the diagnosis of tuberculosis
Session: Frontiers in the diagnosis of tuberculosis
Session type: Oral Presentation
Number: 3063
Disease area: Respiratory infections

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