CD4+ CD25+ FOXP3+ T cell frequency in the peripheral blood is a biomarker that distinguishes intestinal tuberculosis from Crohn’s disease

Veena Tiwari; Saurabh Kedia; Sushil Kumar Garg; Ritika Rampal; V. Pratap Mouli; Anuja Purwar; D. K. Mitra; Prasenjit Das; S. Dattagupta; Govind Makharia; S. K. Acharya; Vineet Ahuja

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0193433

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CD4⁺ CD25⁺ FOXP3⁺ T cell frequency in the peripheral blood is a biomarker that distinguishes intestinal tuberculosis from Crohn’s disease

Veena Tiwari,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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Saurabh Kedia,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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Sushil Kumar Garg,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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Ritika Rampal,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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V. Pratap Mouli,

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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Anuja Purwar,

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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D. K. Mitra,

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of HLA and Transplant Immunology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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Prasenjit Das,

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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S. Dattagupta,

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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Govind Makharia,

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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S. K. Acharya,

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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Vineet Ahuja

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: vineet.aiims@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1577-0118

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CD4⁺ CD25⁺ FOXP3⁺ T cell frequency in the peripheral blood is a biomarker that distinguishes intestinal tuberculosis from Crohn’s disease

Veena Tiwari,
Saurabh Kedia,
Sushil Kumar Garg,
Ritika Rampal,
V. Pratap Mouli,
Anuja Purwar,
D. K. Mitra,
Prasenjit Das,
S. Dattagupta,
Govind Makharia

Published: February 28, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193433

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