Diagnosis of Childhood Tuberculosis and Host RNA Expression in Africa
Author(s) -
Suzanne T. Anderson,
Myrsini Kaforou,
Andrew Brent,
Victoria Wright,
Claire M. Banwell,
George Chagaluka,
Amelia C. Crampin,
Hazel M. Dockrell,
Neil French,
Melissa Shea Hamilton,
Martin L. Hibberd,
Florian Kern,
Paul R. Langford,
Ling Ling,
Rachel Mlotha,
Tom H. M. Ottenhoff,
Sandy Pienaar,
Vashini Pillay,
J. Anthony G. Scott,
Hemed Twahir,
Robert J. Wilkinson,
Lachlan Coin,
Robert S. Heyderman,
Michael Levin,
Brian Eley
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1303657
Subject(s) - tuberculosis , medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , host (biology) , immunology , virology , host factors , virus , pathology , biology , genetics
Improved diagnostic tests for tuberculosis in children are needed. We hypothesized that transcriptional signatures of host blood could be used to distinguish tuberculosis from other diseases in African children who either were or were not infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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