101. A molecular assay for sensitive detection of pathogen-specific T-cells.
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Victoria O Kasprowicz, Jessica E Mitchell, Shivan Chetty, Pamla Govender, Kuan-Hsiang Gary Huang, Helen A Fletcher, Daniel P Webster, Sebastian Brown, Anne Kasmar, Kerry Millington, Cheryl L Day, Nompumelelo Mkhwanazi, Cheryl McClurg, Fundisiwe Chonco, Ajit Lalvani, Bruce D Walker, Thumbi Ndung'u, and Paul Klenerman
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
Here we describe the development and validation of a highly sensitive assay of antigen-specific IFN-γ production using real time quantitative PCR (qPCR) for two reporters--monokine-induced by IFN-γ (MIG) and the IFN-γ inducible protein-10 (IP10). We developed and validated the assay and applied it to the detection of CMV, HIV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) specific responses, in a cohort of HIV co-infected patients. We compared the sensitivity of this assay to that of the ex vivo RD1 (ESAT-6 and CFP-10)-specific IFN-γ Elispot assay. We observed a clear quantitative correlation between the two assays (P
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- 2011
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