Sensitisation pattern of healthy volunteers and tuberculosis patients to various mycobacterial antigens by ELISA

Narayanan, Sujatha and Paramasivan, C N and Ravoof, Abdul and Narayanan, P R and Prabhakar, R (1987) Sensitisation pattern of healthy volunteers and tuberculosis patients to various mycobacterial antigens by ELISA. Indian Journal of Tuberculosis, 34 (3). pp. 132-135. ISSN 0019-5705

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Abstract

The sensitisation pattern of 39 tuberculosis patients and 21 healthy volunteers to 9 different mycobacterial antigen sonicates was estimated using ELISA. The antibody levels of patients and volunteers were high against M. tuberculosis-7219, M. kanasii and M. scrofulaceurn and low against M. chelonei and M.fortuitum. The tuberculosis patients showed a mean antibody level which was significantly different from that of volunteers to M. tuber culosis-7219, M. kansasii, M. scrofulaceum, M. tuberculosis S.I., M. bovis and PPD-S. With respect to three antigens, namely, M. chelonei, M. fortuitum and M, avium intracellulare, there was no significant difference between patients and volunteers.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Tuberculosis > Laboratory Research > Immunological
Divisions:	Basic Science Research > Immunology
Depositing User:	Dr. Rathinasabapati R
Date Deposited:	21 Aug 2013 09:36
Last Modified:	15 Mar 2016 10:30
URI:	http://eprints.nirt.res.in/id/eprint/225

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