You are here

  • Home
  • Archive
  • Volume 68, Issue 3
  • BCG-specific IgG-secreting peripheral plasmablasts as a potential biomarker of active tuberculosis in HIV negative and HIV positive patients

Article info

Article menu
Tuberculosis
Original article
BCG-specific IgG-secreting peripheral plasmablasts as a potential biomarker of active tuberculosis in HIV negative and HIV positive patients

Authors

  • Senait Ashenafi Department of Medicine, Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM), Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, SwedenDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Black Lion University Hospital and Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Getachew Aderaye Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Black Lion University Hospital and Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Martha Zewdie Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rubhana Raqib Laboratory Science Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Amsalu Bekele Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Black Lion University Hospital and Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Isabelle Magalhaes Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Beede Lema Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Black Lion University Hospital and Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Meseret Habtamu Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rokeya Sultana Rekha Laboratory Science Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Getachew Aseffa Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Black Lion University Hospital and Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Markus Maeurer Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Abraham Aseffa Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mattias Svensson Department of Medicine, Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM), Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jan Andersson Department of Medicine, Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM), Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, SwedenDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Susanna Brighenti Department of Medicine, Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM), Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Susanna Brighenti, Department of Medicine, Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM), Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, 141 86 Stockholm, Sweden; susanna.brighenti{at}ki.se
View Full Text

Citation

Ashenafi S, Aderaye G, Zewdie M, et al
BCG-specific IgG-secreting peripheral plasmablasts as a potential biomarker of active tuberculosis in HIV negative and HIV positive patients
Thorax 2013;68:269-276.

Publication history

  • Received February 24, 2012
  • Accepted July 27, 2012
  • First published August 24, 2012.
Online issue publication 
September 01, 2022

Article Versions

  • Supplementary Data

    This web only file has been produced by the BMJ Publishing Group from an electronic file supplied by the author(s) and has not been edited for content.

    Files in this Data Supplement:

Request permissions

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

Copyright information

Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode