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Boll Soc Ital Biol Sper
; 67(5): 517-9, 1991 May.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-1805883
ABSTRACT
T lymphocytes purified from peripheral blood of tuberculosis patients and from healthy skin test PPD-positive subjects show a remarkably increased proliferative response in culture to purified protein derivative (PPD) when three anti-mycobacterial monoclonal antibodies are added together with the antigen. This indicates an important role played by antibodies in the T cell response to the tuberculous infection.