Sarcoidosis and tuberculosis cytokine profiles: indistinguishable in bronchoalveolar lavage but different in blood.
- Thillai, M
- Eberhardt, C
- Lewin, AM
- Potiphar, L
- Hingley-Wilson, S
- Sridhar, S
- Macintyre, J
- Kon, OM
- Wickremasinghe, M
- Wells, A
- Weeks, ME
- Mitchell, D
- Lalvani, A
Publication date
January 2012
DOI Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)Abstract
The clinical, radiological and pathological similarities between sarcoidosis and tuberculosis can make disease differentiation challenging. A complicating factor is that some cases of sarcoidosis may be initiated by mycobacteria. We hypothesised that immunological profiling might provide insight into a possible relationship between the diseases or allow us to distinguish between them
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