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Methods of diagnosing and treating active tuberculosis in an individual
Methods of diagnosing and treating active tuberculosis in an individual
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机译:诊断和治疗个体活动性肺结核的方法
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The invention relates to biomarkers for diagnosing, monitoring and/or treating tuberculosis in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised individuals with or without co-infection with HIV, monitoring the responses of individuals to anti-mycobacterial chemotherapy, monitoring the progression of latent tuberculosis to active tuberculosis, differentiating active tuberculosis from latent tuberculosis, and from other clinical conditions that mimic tuberculosis (TB). The invention also relates to methods for diagnosing, monitoring and/or treating tuberculosis using said biomarkers. The above pertain in all aspects both to pulmonary and extrapulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections, with Mycobacterium tuberculosis being the causative organism in tuberculosis. The invention therefore finds great utility in assisting with future drug discovery efforts for tuberculosis and also provides proxy clinical end points as well as being an effective predictor of a response to treatment.
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