Improved laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis–the Indian experience

S Haldar, M Bose, P Chakrabarti, HF Daginawala… - Tuberculosis, 2011 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death worldwide attributable to a single infectious
disease agent. India has more new TB cases annually than any other country. In 2008, India …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in the diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

PI Anochie, EC Onyeneke, AC Ogu, AC Onyeozirila… - Germs, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Improved sensitivity of diagnosis of tuberculosis in patients in Korea via a cocktail enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay containing the abundantly expressed antigens …

AR Shin, SJ Shin, KS Lee, SH Eom… - Clinical and Vaccine …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent in Korea. In
this study, we compared the proteins present in culture filtrates from Mycobacterium …

[HTML][HTML] A multiple-antigen detection assay for tuberculosis diagnosis based on broadly reactive polyclonal antibodies

Z Dai, Z Liu, B Xiu, X Yang, P Zhao… - Iranian Journal of …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective (s): Detection of circulating Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) antigens
is promising in Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis. However, not a single antigen marker has been …

[PDF][PDF] Efficient ELISA for diagnosis of active tuberculosis employing a cocktail of secretory proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

D Tiwari, RP Tiwari, R Chandra, PS Bisen, S Haque - Folia Biologica, 2014 - fb.cuni.cz
Rapid and accurate diagnosis is important for preventing transmission of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis. Currently available tuberculosis (TB) dia-gnostic methods lack desired …

Utility of a combination of RD1 and RD2 antigens as a diagnostic marker for tuberculosis

M Kalra, GK Khuller, A Grover, D Behera… - … and Infectious Disease, 2010 - Elsevier
We evaluated the diagnostic potential of a cocktail of 4 antigens encoded by regions of
difference (RD) 1 and 2 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, that is, early secretory antigenic …

Identification of novel RD1 antigens and their combinations for diagnosis of sputum smear−/culture+ TB patients

Z Liu, S Qie, L Li, B Xiu, X Yang, Z Dai… - BioMed research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid and accurate diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) is an unresolved problem
worldwide, especially for sputum smear−(S−) cases. In this study, five antigen genes …

Identification of Rv2041c, a Novel Immunogenic Antigen from Mycobacterium tuberculosis with Serodiagnostic Potential

SY Kim, AR Shin, HJ Kim, SN Cho… - Scandinavian journal …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Novel immunogenic antigens are continually required for the improvement of diagnostic
techniques for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Some proteins with serodiagnostic …

Use of Rv0222-Rv2657c-Rv1509 fusion protein to improve the accuracy of an antibody ELISA for extra-pulmonary tuberculosis in humans

Y Chen, P Ge, K Zhang, J Xiang, L Zhang… - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: Tuberculosis (TB) in humans is a serious chronic epidemic disease caused
by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb). The diagnosis of TB, especially extra-pulmonary TB …

Inhibition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis secretory serine protease blocks bacterial multiplication both in axenic culture and in human macrophages

V Upadhye, A Majumdar, A Gomashe… - … journal of infectious …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
To study the possible importance of mycobacterial ES-31 serine protease for bacterial cell
growth, the effect of serine and metalloprotease inhibitors, anti-tubercular drugs such as …