International Journal of Infectious Diseases (Mar 2017)

High-throughput and computational approaches for diagnostic and prognostic host tuberculosis biomarkers

  • January Weiner,
  • Stefan H.E. Kaufmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2016.10.017
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 56, no. C
pp. 258 – 262

Abstract

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High-throughput techniques strive to identify new biomarkers that will be useful for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tuberculosis (TB). However, their analysis and interpretation pose considerable challenges. Recent developments in the high-throughput detection of host biomarkers in TB are reported in this review.

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