Diagnostic test for tuberculosis.

摘要

A method of determining infection in a human by a mycobacterium which expresses ESAT-6, or exposure of a human to it, comprising: (i) contacting a population of T cells from said human with the peptide represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 and optionally one or more further peptides represented by SEQ ID Nos 2 to 11 and (ii) determining in vitro whether T cells of said T cell population recognize said / s peptide / s.