INVESTIGADORES
SANTUCCI Natalia Estefania
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
A PARTLY NORMALIZATION IN THE IMMUNE-ENDOCRINE CIRCULATING PROFILE OF TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS UNDERGOING SPECIFIC TREATMENT
Autor/es:
DÍAZ, ARIANA; BONGIOVANNI, BETTINA; D'ATTILIO, LUCIANO; SANTUCCI, NATALIA; RADCLIFFE, STELLA; BRANDÁN, NADIA; NANNINI, LUIS; BOTTASSO, OSCAR; BAY, MARÍA LUISA
Lugar:
Milán
Reunión:
Congreso; 15th international congress of immunology; 2013
Resumen:
Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a global health problem. Extending our earlier findings in which untreated TB patients revealed imbalanced immune-endocrine responses, we have now analyzed the immune-endocrine profile throughout the 6-month course of specific treatment and 3 month following its completion. Twenty healthy controls (HCo) and 19 age- and sex-matched TB -HIV negative- patients were bled at diagnosis (T0), two (T2), four (T4) and 6 months (T6) of treatment as well as 3 months later (T9). At diagnosis patients showed a low BMI (p