Significance of antigen and epitope specificity in tuberculosis

• Main Author: Tom H.M. Ottenhoff (auth)
• Other Authors: Juraj Ivanyi (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; Antigens; Tuberculosis; bacterial; MHC restriction; TB diagnosis; T-lymphocyte; vaccine adjuvant; Epitopes
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Dissection of the specificity of host immune responses following infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is essential for designing effective vaccination and diagnostic biomarkers as well as for better understanding of immunopathogenesis of active tuberculosis. The articles in this volume of the T...