The diagnostic value of serological studies in the clinical picture of tuberculosis
Kozlova, A.V.; Rusakova, L.I.; Sokolova, Z.I.; Akimova, O.G.; Karpukhina, N.V.; Chelidze, A.V.; Permiakova, Z.A.; Kozlova, O.F.
Problemy Tuberkuleza 1: 21-22
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0032-9533 PMID: 8907478 Document Number: 466001
Circulating antituberculous antibodies in the sera from 89 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and 11 patients with tumors and nonspecific inflammation in the lungs were evaluated using indirect hemagglutination and enzyme immunoassay. Specific antibodies were detected in 81.6 and 30% of tuberculous and nontuberculous patients, respectively.