作者: Noor Dawany , Louise C. Showe , Andrew V. Kossenkov , Celia Chang , Prudence Ive
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0089925
关键词: Immunology 、 Mycobacterium tuberculosis 、 In patient 、 Coinfection 、 Gene expression 、 Cause of death 、 Tuberculosis diagnosis 、 Tuberculosis 、 Virology 、 Gene expression profiling 、 Biology 、 General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 、 General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 、 General Medicine
摘要: Background Co-infection with tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death in HIV-infected individuals. However, diagnosis TB, especially presence an HIV co-infection, can be limiting due to high inaccuracy associated use conventional diagnostic methods. Here we report a gene signature that identify infection patients co-infected as well absence HIV.