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Clin. Vaccine Immunol. doi:10.1128/CVI.00029-08
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Diagnosis of Tuberculous Meningitis due to ESAT-6-specific IFN-gamma production detected by Enzyme-Linked Immunospot Assay in Cerebrospinal Fluid

Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, and Department of Neurology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: ishigats{at}med.yokohama-cu.ac.jp.

	Abstract

A coma patient was diagnosed as having tuberculous meningitis by detection of ESAT-6 specific IFN- secreting cells within cerebrospinal fluid by enzyme-linked immunospot assay prior to identifying the pathogen in the cerebrospinal fluid culture.