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ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2019

The TAM-TB Assay-A Promising TB Immune-Diagnostic Test With a Potential for Treatment Monitoring.

Mohamed I M Ahmed, Christian Ziegler, Kathrin Held, Ilja Dubinski, Julia Ley-Zaporozhan, Christof Geldmacher, Ulrich von Both

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Article in Frontiers in pediatrics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Mohamed I M AhmedGerman Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany.
Christian ZieglerDivision of Orthopaedics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
Kathrin HeldGerman Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany.
Ilja DubinskiDivision of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
Julia Ley-ZaporozhanDepartment of Radiology, Paediatric Radiology, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
Christof GeldmacherGerman Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany.
Ulrich von BothGerman Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DEGerman Center for Infection Research · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) epidemiology is changing in Western and Central Europe due to the rise in immigration and refugees fleeing high-TB-burden areas of war and devastation. The change in local demography and the lack of sensitive and specific TB diagnostic and monitoring tools, especially for cases of childhood TB, leads to either missed cases or over-treatment of this group. Here we present a promising new diagnostic approach, the T cell activation marker (TAM)-TB assay, and its performance in a case of extra-pulmonary TB occurring in a 16 year old refugee from Afghanistan. This assay is based on the characterization of 3 activation markers (CD38, HLA-DR, and Ki67) and one maturation marker (CD27) on

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extra-pulmonary tuberculosispediatric tuberculosisTAM-TB assayTB diagnosticstreatment monitoring

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PMID30805325
PMCPMC6378289
OpenAlexW2914451609

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