[Quantitative characteristics of immunity in patients with reactivated pulmonary tuberculosis]. / Kolichestvennye kharakteristiki immuniteta u bolnykh s reaktivatsiei tuberkuleza legkikh.

Immune status was assessed in 44 patients with pulmonary re-infection tuberculosis using monoclonal antibodies. Quantitative indices of the immune status (relative amount of T-cells, T-helpers, T-suppressors, natural killers) correlated with tuberculosis activity. It is important to identify immunity-compromised subjects among tuberculous patients to rule out relapses with the help of early immunocorrection.