Open AccessInterferon-gamma treatment kinetics among patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis
Author(s) -
O O Adewole,
Martin O. C. Ota,
G E Erhabor,
Patrick K. Owiafe,
Aliu Oladimeji,
Daniel O Obaseki
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
nigerian medical journal/nigerian medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-774X
pISSN - 0300-1652
DOI - 10.4103/0300-1652.126287
Subject(s) - pulmonary tuberculosis , kinetics , interferon gamma , tuberculosis , medicine , virology , immunology , pathology , physics , cytokine , quantum mechanics
Interferon-γ (IFN-γ) is essential for defence against Mycobacterium tuberculosis; however, levels in patients with active tuberculosis (TB) and changes during treatment have not been documented in our tuberculosis patients in Nigeria, hence this study has been carried out.