Pulmonary tuberculosis and serum IgE

BCG vaccine and pulmonary tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most important public health problems in the world and has been declared as a global emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1993. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is one of the first developed vaccines to prevent TB. Unfortunately, BCG vaccine has had a limited duration of protection and has shown controversial and variable levels of efficacy, especial...

Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Serum mucoproteins in pulmonary tuberculosis.

In view of the fact that there is a need for a simple and objective laboratory procedure to aid in the determination of prognosis, extent and state of activity of pulmonary tuberculosis, It appeared justified to report experiences with mucoproteins and polysaccharides. This need has become more urgent with the discovery of new chemotherapeutic and antibiotic agents, as well as the development o...

Serum calcium in pulmonary tuberculosis.

Serum calcium was studied serially in 94 patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis. An equal number of ageand sex-matched patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were controls. Seventy patients in the study group were normocalcaemic and 10 were hypercalcaemic. These 10 were on a higher supplement of vitamin D than the 70 normocalcaemic patients. There was a positive correlation be...

Serum IgD and IgE

seen in hypogammaglobulinemic patients. Group mean IgD concentrations were also depressed in patients with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome and in those with selective IgA deficiency; IgE concentrations were depressed in patients with X-linked immunodeficiency with hyperIgM and in those with ataxia telangiectasia. IgD and IgE were both significantly elevated in patients with extreme hyperimmunoglobulin...