tuberculosis (TB). In order to test the hypothesis that Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2 function would
be abnormal in patients with active pulmonary TB we compared the cytokine responses of
peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) to innate immune ligands in a case-control
study. Methods PBMC from 19 untreated pulmonary TB patients, 17 healthy controls, and 11
treated pulmonary TB patients, were cultured for 24 h with TLR 2 ligand (PAM-CSK) and …