WHO, 2017. Global Tuberculosis Report 2017. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.
Rock RB, Olin M, Baker CA, Molitor TW, Peterson PK, 2008. Central nervous system tuberculosis: pathogenesis and clinical aspects. Clin Microbiol Rev 21: 243–261.
Thwaites GE, van Toorn R, Schoeman J, 2013. Tuberculous meningitis: more questions, still too few answers. Lancet Neurol 12: 999–1010.
Torok ME, 2015. Tuberculous meningitis: advances in diagnosis and treatment. Br Med Bull 113: 117–131.
Ling DI, Flores LL, Riley LW, Pai M, 2008. Commercial nucleic-acid amplification tests for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in respiratory specimens: meta-analysis and meta-regression. PLoS One 2: e1536.
Solomons RS, van Elsland SL, Visser DH, Hoek KG, Marais BJ, Schoeman JF, van Furth AM, 2014. Commercial nucleic acid amplification tests in tuberculous meningitis—a meta-analysis. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 78: 398–403.
Pai M, Flores LL, Pai N, Hubbard A, Riley LW, Colford JM Jr., 2003. Diagnostic accuracy of nucleic acid amplification tests for tuberculous meningitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Infect Dis 3: 633–643.
Boehme CC et al. 2010. Rapid molecular detection of tuberculosis and rifampin resistance. N Engl J Med 363: 1005–1015.
Rufai SB, Singh A, Singh J, Kumar P, Sankar MM, Singh S, TB Research Team, 2017. Diagnostic usefulness of Xpert MTB/RIF assay for detection of tuberculous meningitis using cerebrospinal fluid. J Infect 75: 125–131.
Nhu NT et al. 2014. Evaluation of GeneXpert MTB/RIF for diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis. J Clin Microbiol 52: 226–233.
Bahr NC et al. 2018. Diagnostic accuracy of Xpert MTB/RIF ultra for tuberculous meningitis in HIV-infected adults: a prospective cohort study. Lancet Infect Dis 18: 68–75.
Kim JY et al. 2018. Combined IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha release assay for differentiating active tuberculosis from latent tuberculosis infection. J Infect 77: 314–320.
Porsa E, Cheng L, Graviss EA, 2007. Comparison of an ESAT-6/CFP-10 peptide-based enzyme-linked immunospot assay to a tuberculin skin test for screening of a population at moderate risk of contracting tuberculosis. Clin Vaccine Immunol 14: 714–719.
Meier T, Eulenbruch HP, Wrighton-Smith P, Enders G, Regnath T, 2005. Sensitivity of a new commercial enzyme-linked immunospot assay (T SPOT-TB) for diagnosis of tuberculosis in clinical practice. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 24: 529–536.
Wen A, Qu XH, Zhang KN, Leng EL, Ren Y, Wu XM, 2018. Evaluation of interferon-gamma release assays in extrasanguinous body fluids for diagnosing tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Life Sci 197: 140–146.
Huy NT, Thao NT, Diep DT, Kikuchi M, Zamora J, Hirayama K, 2010. Cerebrospinal fluid lactate concentration to distinguish bacterial from aseptic meningitis: a systemic review and meta-analysis. Crit Care 14: R240.
Chen Z et al. 2012. The clinical diagnostic significance of cerebrospinal fluid D-lactate for bacterial meningitis. Clin Chim Acta 413: 1512–1515.
Sharma S et al. 2017. Cytokines do play a role in pathogenesis of tuberculous meningitis: a prospective study from a tertiary care center in India. J Neurol Sci 379: 131–136.
Sakushima K, Hayashino Y, Kawaguchi T, Jackson JL, Fukuhara S, 2011. Diagnostic accuracy of cerebrospinal fluid lactate for differentiating bacterial meningitis from aseptic meningitis: a meta-analysis. J Infect 62: 255–262.
Kataria J, Rukmangadachar LA, Hariprasad G, O J, Tripathi M, Srinivasan A, 2011. Two dimensional difference gel electrophoresis analysis of cerebrospinal fluid in tuberculous meningitis patients. J Proteomics 74: 2194–2203.
Ruhwald M, Bodmer T, Maier C, Jepsen M, Haaland MB, Eugen-Olsen J, Ravn P, Tbnet, 2008. Evaluating the potential of IP-10 and MCP-2 as biomarkers for the diagnosis of tuberculosis. Eur Respir J 32: 1607–1615.
Demissie A, VACSEL Study Group et al. 2004. Healthy individuals that control a latent infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis express high levels of Th1 cytokines and the IL-4 antagonist IL-4delta2. J Immunol 172: 6938–6943.
La Manna MP, Orlando V, Li Donni P, Sireci G, Di Carlo P, Cascio A, Dieli F, Caccamo N, 2018. Identification of plasma biomarkers for discrimination between tuberculosis infection/disease and pulmonary non tuberculosis disease. PLoS One 13: e0192664.
Liu Y, Li X, Liu W, Liu Y, Zhong Z, Wang L, Ge S, Zhang J, Xia N, 2018. IL-6 release of Rv0183 antigen-stimulated whole blood is a potential biomarker for active tuberculosis patients. J Infect 76: 376–382.
Sutherland JS, de Jong BC, Jeffries DJ, Adetifa IM, Ota MO, 2010. Production of TNF-alpha, IL-12(p40) and IL-17 can discriminate between active TB disease and latent infection in a west African cohort. PLoS One 5: e12365.
Crawford A, Angelosanto JM, Kao C, Doering TA, Odorizzi PM, Barnett BE, Wherry EJ, 2014. Molecular and transcriptional basis of CD4(+) T cell dysfunction during chronic infection. Immunity 40: 289–302.
Pauken KE, Wherry EJ, 2015. Overcoming T cell exhaustion in infection and cancer. Trends Immunol 36: 265–276.
Barber DL, Wherry EJ, Masopust D, Zhu B, Allison JP, Sharpe AH, Freeman GJ, Ahmed R, 2006. Restoring function in exhausted CD8 T cells during chronic viral infection. Nature 439: 682–687.
Singh A, Mohan A, Dey AB, Mitra DK, 2013. Inhibiting the programmed death 1 pathway rescues Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific interferon gamma-producing T cells from apoptosis in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. J Infect Dis 208: 603–615.
Yin W, Tong ZH, Cui A, Zhang JC, Ye ZJ, Yuan ML, Zhou Q, Shi HZ, 2014. PD-1/PD-Ls pathways between CD4(+) T cells and pleural mesothelial cells in human tuberculous pleurisy. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 94: 131–139.
Jurado JO, Alvarez IB, Pasquinelli V, Martinez GJ, Quiroga MF, Abbate E, Musella RM, Chuluyan HE, Garcia VE, 2008. Programmed death (PD)-1:PD-ligand 1/PD-ligand 2 pathway inhibits T cell effector functions during human tuberculosis. J Immunol 181: 116–125.
McNab FW et al. 2011. Programmed death ligand 1 is over-expressed by neutrophils in the blood of patients with active tuberculosis. Eur J Immunol 41: 1941–1947.
Singh A, Mohan A, Dey AB, Mitra DK, 2017. Programmed death-1(+) T cells inhibit effector T cells at the pathological site of miliary tuberculosis. Clin Exp Immunol 187: 269–283.
Patel VB, Singh R, Connolly C, Kasprowicz V, Ndung’u T, Dheda K, 2011. Comparative utility of cytokine levels and quantitative RD-1-specific T cell responses for rapid immunodiagnosis of tuberculous meningitis. J Clin Microbiol 49: 3971–3976.
Visser DH, Solomons RS, Ronacher K, van Well GT, Heymans MW, Walzl G, Chegou NN, Schoeman JF, van Furth AM, 2015. Host immune response to tuberculous meningitis. Clin Infect Dis 60: 177–187.
Yang Q et al. 2014. IP-10 and MIG are compartmentalized at the site of disease during pleural and meningeal tuberculosis and are decreased after antituberculosis treatment. Clin Vaccine Immunol 21: 1635–1644.
Misra UK, Kalita J, Srivastava R, Nair PP, Mishra MK, Basu A, 2010. A study of cytokines in tuberculous meningitis: clinical and MRI correlation. Neurosci Lett 483: 6–10.
Marais S, Thwaites G, Schoeman JF, Torok ME, Misra UK, Prasad K, Donald PR, Wilkinson RJ, Marais BJ, 2010. Tuberculous meningitis: a uniform case definition for use in clinical research. Lancet Infect Dis 10: 803–812.
Park KH et al. 2016. Diagnostic usefulness of T-cell based assays for tuberculous meningitis in HIV-uninfected patients. J Infect 72: 486–497.
Cooper AM, Solache A, Khader SA, 2007. Interleukin-12 and tuberculosis: an old story revisited. Curr Opin Immunol 19: 441–447.
Cooper AM, Kipnis A, Turner J, Magram J, Ferrante J, Orme IM, 2002. Mice lacking bioactive IL-12 can generate protective, antigen-specific cellular responses to mycobacterial infection only if the IL-12 p40 subunit is present. J Immunol 168: 1322–1327.
Holscher C, Atkinson RA, Arendse B, Brown N, Myburgh E, Alber G, Brombacher F, 2001. A protective and agonistic function of IL-12p40 in mycobacterial infection. J Immunol 167: 6957–6966.
Prando C et al. 2013. Inherited IL-12p40 deficiency: genetic, immunologic, and clinical features of 49 patients from 30 kindreds. Medicine (Baltimore) 92: 109–122.
Wan B, Nie H, Liu A, Feng G, He D, Xu R, Zhang Q, Dong C, Zhang JZ, 2006. Aberrant regulation of synovial T cell activation by soluble costimulatory molecules in rheumatoid arthritis. J Immunol 177: 8844–8850.
Cheng HY et al. 2014. Circulating programmed death-1 as a marker for sustained high hepatitis B viral load and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma. PLoS One 9: e95870.
Greisen SR, Rasmussen TK, Stengaard-Pedersen K, Hetland ML, Horslev-Petersen K, Hvid M, Deleuran B, 2014. Increased soluble programmed death-1 (sPD-1) is associated with disease activity and radiographic progression in early rheumatoid arthritis. Scand J Rheumatol 43: 101–108.
Wei W, Xu B, Wang Y, Wu C, Jiang J, Wu C, 2018. Prognostic significance of circulating soluble programmed death ligand-1 in patients with solid tumors: a meta-analysis. Medicine (Baltimore) 97: e9617.
Kruger S et al. 2017. Serum levels of soluble programmed death protein 1 (sPD-1) and soluble programmed death ligand 1 (sPD-L1) in advanced pancreatic cancer. Oncoimmunology 6: e1310358.
Pan X, Zhong A, Xing Y, Shi M, Qian B, Zhou T, Chen Y, Zhang X, 2016. Increased soluble and membrane-bound PD-L1 contributes to immune regulation and disease progression in patients with tuberculous pleural effusion. Exp Ther Med 12: 2161–2168.
Harari A et al. 2011. Dominant TNF-α+ Mycobacterium tuberculosis-speficific CD4+ T cell responses discriminate between latent infection and active disease. Nat Med 17: 372–376.
Jeong YH et al. 2015. Discrimination between active and latent tuberculosis based on ratio of antigen-specific to mitogen-induced IP-10 production. J Clin Microbiol 53: 504–510.
Wang F, Hou H, Xu L, Jane M, Peng J, Lu Y, Zhu Y, Sun Z, 2013. Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific TNF-α is a potential biomarker for the rapid diagnosis of active tuberculosis disease in Chinese population. PLoS One 8: e79431.
Tobin DM et al. 2012. Host genotype-specific therapies can optimize the inflammatory response to mycobacterial infections. Cell 148: 434–446.
Harishankar M, Selvaraj P, Bethunaickan R, 2018. Influence of genetic polymorphism towards pulmonary tuberculosis susceptibility. Front Med (Laussanne) 5: 213.
Roca FJ, Ramakrishnan L, 2013. TNF dually mediates resistance and susceptibility to mycobacteria via mitochondrial reactive oxygen species. Cell 153: 521–534.
Bahr NC, Tugume L, Rajasingham R, Kiggundu R, Williams DA, Morawski B, Alland D, Meya DB, Rhein J, Boulware DR, 2015. Improved diagnostic sensitivity for tuberculous meningitis with Xpert(®) MTB/RIF of centrifuged CSF: a prospective study. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 19: 1209–1215.
Bonington A, Strang JI, Klapper PE, Hood SV, Rubombora W, Penny M, Willers R, Wilkins EG, 1998. Use of Roche AMPLICOR Mycobacterium tuberculosis PCR in early diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis. J Clin Microbiol 36: 1251–1254.
Shirani K, Talaei Z, Yaran M, Ataei B, Mehrabi-Koushki A, Khorvash F, 2015. Diagnosed tuberculous meningitis using cerebrospinal fluid polymerase chain reaction in patients hospitalized with the diagnosis of meningitis in referral hospitals in Isfahan. J Res Med Sci 20: 224–227.
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In this study, we investigated the diagnostic utility of the cytokine profile of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and enzyme-linked immunospot (ELISPOT) assays of patients with suspected tuberculous meningitis (TBM). We prospectively enrolled adult patients with suspected TBM, and CSF specimens were analyzed for 18 cytokines/chemokines and soluble programmed death protein 1 (PD-1) and programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1). Enzyme-linked immunospot assays were performed on mononuclear cells from the CSF (CSF-MCs) and peripheral blood (PBMCs). A total of 87 patients with meningitis, including 42 TBM-suspected patients and 45 non-TBM patients, were enrolled. Excluding the 32 patients with possible TBM, 10 patients with TBM and 45 patients with non-TBM were finally analyzed. Levels of adenosine deaminase (ADA), interleukin 12 subunit β (IL-12p40), IL-13, macrophage inflammatory protein α (MIP-1α), and soluble PD-1 and PD-L1 in the CSF were significantly higher in the TBM group than in the non-TBM group (P < 0.05). The optimal cutoff values for the sensitivities and specificities of the test methods for diagnosing TBM with small samples of 10 cases of definite or probable TBM were as follows: ADA > 6.95 U/L, 70% and 81%; IL-12p40 > 52.04 pg/mL, 80% and 73%; IL-13 > 0.44 pg/mL, 90% and 47%; MIP-1α > 8.83 pg/mL, 80% and 62%; soluble PD-1 > 35.87 pg/mL, 80% and 63%; soluble PD-L1 > 24.19 pg/mL, 80% and 61%; CSF-MC ELISPOT > 13.5 spots/250,000 CSF-MC, 30% and 91%; and PBMC ELISPOT > 14 spots/250,000 PBMCs, 50% and 78%, respectively. Therefore, CSF IL-12p40, IL-13, MIP-1α, and soluble PD-1 and PD-L1 concentrations appear to be useful adjuncts for diagnosing TBM.
Financial support: This work was supported by grants from the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (grant NRF-2018R1D1A1A09082099) and the Asan Institute for Life Sciences (2018-7040).
Authors’ addresses: Ji-Soo Kwon, Joung Ha Park, Ji Yeun Kim, Hye Hee Cha, Min-Jae Kim, Yong Pil Chong, Sang-Oh Lee, Sang-Ho Choi, Yang Soo Kim, Jun Hee Woo, and Sung-Han Kim, Department of Infectious Diseases, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, E-mails: kwonjs92@kaist.ac.kr, pjha89@hanmail.net, aeki22@snu.ac.kr, heyhe0102@naver.com, nahani99@gmail.com, drchong@amc.seoul.kr, soleemd@amc.seoul.kr, sangho@amc.seoul.kr, yskim@amc.seoul.kr, thanks1126@hanmail.net, and kimsunghanmd@hotmail.com. Yong-Seo Koo, Sang-Beom Jeon, and Sang-Ahm Lee, Department of Neurology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, E-mails: yo904@naver.com,sbjeonmd@gmail.com, and salee@amc.seoul.kr.
These authors contributed equally to this work.
WHO, 2017. Global Tuberculosis Report 2017. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.
Rock RB, Olin M, Baker CA, Molitor TW, Peterson PK, 2008. Central nervous system tuberculosis: pathogenesis and clinical aspects. Clin Microbiol Rev 21: 243–261.
Thwaites GE, van Toorn R, Schoeman J, 2013. Tuberculous meningitis: more questions, still too few answers. Lancet Neurol 12: 999–1010.
Torok ME, 2015. Tuberculous meningitis: advances in diagnosis and treatment. Br Med Bull 113: 117–131.
Ling DI, Flores LL, Riley LW, Pai M, 2008. Commercial nucleic-acid amplification tests for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in respiratory specimens: meta-analysis and meta-regression. PLoS One 2: e1536.
Solomons RS, van Elsland SL, Visser DH, Hoek KG, Marais BJ, Schoeman JF, van Furth AM, 2014. Commercial nucleic acid amplification tests in tuberculous meningitis—a meta-analysis. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 78: 398–403.
Pai M, Flores LL, Pai N, Hubbard A, Riley LW, Colford JM Jr., 2003. Diagnostic accuracy of nucleic acid amplification tests for tuberculous meningitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Infect Dis 3: 633–643.
Boehme CC et al. 2010. Rapid molecular detection of tuberculosis and rifampin resistance. N Engl J Med 363: 1005–1015.
Rufai SB, Singh A, Singh J, Kumar P, Sankar MM, Singh S, TB Research Team, 2017. Diagnostic usefulness of Xpert MTB/RIF assay for detection of tuberculous meningitis using cerebrospinal fluid. J Infect 75: 125–131.
Nhu NT et al. 2014. Evaluation of GeneXpert MTB/RIF for diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis. J Clin Microbiol 52: 226–233.
Bahr NC et al. 2018. Diagnostic accuracy of Xpert MTB/RIF ultra for tuberculous meningitis in HIV-infected adults: a prospective cohort study. Lancet Infect Dis 18: 68–75.
Kim JY et al. 2018. Combined IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha release assay for differentiating active tuberculosis from latent tuberculosis infection. J Infect 77: 314–320.
Porsa E, Cheng L, Graviss EA, 2007. Comparison of an ESAT-6/CFP-10 peptide-based enzyme-linked immunospot assay to a tuberculin skin test for screening of a population at moderate risk of contracting tuberculosis. Clin Vaccine Immunol 14: 714–719.
Meier T, Eulenbruch HP, Wrighton-Smith P, Enders G, Regnath T, 2005. Sensitivity of a new commercial enzyme-linked immunospot assay (T SPOT-TB) for diagnosis of tuberculosis in clinical practice. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 24: 529–536.
Wen A, Qu XH, Zhang KN, Leng EL, Ren Y, Wu XM, 2018. Evaluation of interferon-gamma release assays in extrasanguinous body fluids for diagnosing tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Life Sci 197: 140–146.
Huy NT, Thao NT, Diep DT, Kikuchi M, Zamora J, Hirayama K, 2010. Cerebrospinal fluid lactate concentration to distinguish bacterial from aseptic meningitis: a systemic review and meta-analysis. Crit Care 14: R240.
Chen Z et al. 2012. The clinical diagnostic significance of cerebrospinal fluid D-lactate for bacterial meningitis. Clin Chim Acta 413: 1512–1515.
Sharma S et al. 2017. Cytokines do play a role in pathogenesis of tuberculous meningitis: a prospective study from a tertiary care center in India. J Neurol Sci 379: 131–136.
Sakushima K, Hayashino Y, Kawaguchi T, Jackson JL, Fukuhara S, 2011. Diagnostic accuracy of cerebrospinal fluid lactate for differentiating bacterial meningitis from aseptic meningitis: a meta-analysis. J Infect 62: 255–262.
Kataria J, Rukmangadachar LA, Hariprasad G, O J, Tripathi M, Srinivasan A, 2011. Two dimensional difference gel electrophoresis analysis of cerebrospinal fluid in tuberculous meningitis patients. J Proteomics 74: 2194–2203.
Ruhwald M, Bodmer T, Maier C, Jepsen M, Haaland MB, Eugen-Olsen J, Ravn P, Tbnet, 2008. Evaluating the potential of IP-10 and MCP-2 as biomarkers for the diagnosis of tuberculosis. Eur Respir J 32: 1607–1615.
Demissie A, VACSEL Study Group et al. 2004. Healthy individuals that control a latent infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis express high levels of Th1 cytokines and the IL-4 antagonist IL-4delta2. J Immunol 172: 6938–6943.
La Manna MP, Orlando V, Li Donni P, Sireci G, Di Carlo P, Cascio A, Dieli F, Caccamo N, 2018. Identification of plasma biomarkers for discrimination between tuberculosis infection/disease and pulmonary non tuberculosis disease. PLoS One 13: e0192664.
Liu Y, Li X, Liu W, Liu Y, Zhong Z, Wang L, Ge S, Zhang J, Xia N, 2018. IL-6 release of Rv0183 antigen-stimulated whole blood is a potential biomarker for active tuberculosis patients. J Infect 76: 376–382.
Sutherland JS, de Jong BC, Jeffries DJ, Adetifa IM, Ota MO, 2010. Production of TNF-alpha, IL-12(p40) and IL-17 can discriminate between active TB disease and latent infection in a west African cohort. PLoS One 5: e12365.
Crawford A, Angelosanto JM, Kao C, Doering TA, Odorizzi PM, Barnett BE, Wherry EJ, 2014. Molecular and transcriptional basis of CD4(+) T cell dysfunction during chronic infection. Immunity 40: 289–302.
Pauken KE, Wherry EJ, 2015. Overcoming T cell exhaustion in infection and cancer. Trends Immunol 36: 265–276.
Barber DL, Wherry EJ, Masopust D, Zhu B, Allison JP, Sharpe AH, Freeman GJ, Ahmed R, 2006. Restoring function in exhausted CD8 T cells during chronic viral infection. Nature 439: 682–687.
Singh A, Mohan A, Dey AB, Mitra DK, 2013. Inhibiting the programmed death 1 pathway rescues Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific interferon gamma-producing T cells from apoptosis in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. J Infect Dis 208: 603–615.
Yin W, Tong ZH, Cui A, Zhang JC, Ye ZJ, Yuan ML, Zhou Q, Shi HZ, 2014. PD-1/PD-Ls pathways between CD4(+) T cells and pleural mesothelial cells in human tuberculous pleurisy. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 94: 131–139.
Jurado JO, Alvarez IB, Pasquinelli V, Martinez GJ, Quiroga MF, Abbate E, Musella RM, Chuluyan HE, Garcia VE, 2008. Programmed death (PD)-1:PD-ligand 1/PD-ligand 2 pathway inhibits T cell effector functions during human tuberculosis. J Immunol 181: 116–125.
McNab FW et al. 2011. Programmed death ligand 1 is over-expressed by neutrophils in the blood of patients with active tuberculosis. Eur J Immunol 41: 1941–1947.
Singh A, Mohan A, Dey AB, Mitra DK, 2017. Programmed death-1(+) T cells inhibit effector T cells at the pathological site of miliary tuberculosis. Clin Exp Immunol 187: 269–283.
Patel VB, Singh R, Connolly C, Kasprowicz V, Ndung’u T, Dheda K, 2011. Comparative utility of cytokine levels and quantitative RD-1-specific T cell responses for rapid immunodiagnosis of tuberculous meningitis. J Clin Microbiol 49: 3971–3976.
Visser DH, Solomons RS, Ronacher K, van Well GT, Heymans MW, Walzl G, Chegou NN, Schoeman JF, van Furth AM, 2015. Host immune response to tuberculous meningitis. Clin Infect Dis 60: 177–187.
Yang Q et al. 2014. IP-10 and MIG are compartmentalized at the site of disease during pleural and meningeal tuberculosis and are decreased after antituberculosis treatment. Clin Vaccine Immunol 21: 1635–1644.
Misra UK, Kalita J, Srivastava R, Nair PP, Mishra MK, Basu A, 2010. A study of cytokines in tuberculous meningitis: clinical and MRI correlation. Neurosci Lett 483: 6–10.
Marais S, Thwaites G, Schoeman JF, Torok ME, Misra UK, Prasad K, Donald PR, Wilkinson RJ, Marais BJ, 2010. Tuberculous meningitis: a uniform case definition for use in clinical research. Lancet Infect Dis 10: 803–812.
Park KH et al. 2016. Diagnostic usefulness of T-cell based assays for tuberculous meningitis in HIV-uninfected patients. J Infect 72: 486–497.
Cooper AM, Solache A, Khader SA, 2007. Interleukin-12 and tuberculosis: an old story revisited. Curr Opin Immunol 19: 441–447.
Cooper AM, Kipnis A, Turner J, Magram J, Ferrante J, Orme IM, 2002. Mice lacking bioactive IL-12 can generate protective, antigen-specific cellular responses to mycobacterial infection only if the IL-12 p40 subunit is present. J Immunol 168: 1322–1327.
Holscher C, Atkinson RA, Arendse B, Brown N, Myburgh E, Alber G, Brombacher F, 2001. A protective and agonistic function of IL-12p40 in mycobacterial infection. J Immunol 167: 6957–6966.
Prando C et al. 2013. Inherited IL-12p40 deficiency: genetic, immunologic, and clinical features of 49 patients from 30 kindreds. Medicine (Baltimore) 92: 109–122.
Wan B, Nie H, Liu A, Feng G, He D, Xu R, Zhang Q, Dong C, Zhang JZ, 2006. Aberrant regulation of synovial T cell activation by soluble costimulatory molecules in rheumatoid arthritis. J Immunol 177: 8844–8850.
Cheng HY et al. 2014. Circulating programmed death-1 as a marker for sustained high hepatitis B viral load and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma. PLoS One 9: e95870.
Greisen SR, Rasmussen TK, Stengaard-Pedersen K, Hetland ML, Horslev-Petersen K, Hvid M, Deleuran B, 2014. Increased soluble programmed death-1 (sPD-1) is associated with disease activity and radiographic progression in early rheumatoid arthritis. Scand J Rheumatol 43: 101–108.
Wei W, Xu B, Wang Y, Wu C, Jiang J, Wu C, 2018. Prognostic significance of circulating soluble programmed death ligand-1 in patients with solid tumors: a meta-analysis. Medicine (Baltimore) 97: e9617.
Kruger S et al. 2017. Serum levels of soluble programmed death protein 1 (sPD-1) and soluble programmed death ligand 1 (sPD-L1) in advanced pancreatic cancer. Oncoimmunology 6: e1310358.
Pan X, Zhong A, Xing Y, Shi M, Qian B, Zhou T, Chen Y, Zhang X, 2016. Increased soluble and membrane-bound PD-L1 contributes to immune regulation and disease progression in patients with tuberculous pleural effusion. Exp Ther Med 12: 2161–2168.
Harari A et al. 2011. Dominant TNF-α+ Mycobacterium tuberculosis-speficific CD4+ T cell responses discriminate between latent infection and active disease. Nat Med 17: 372–376.
Jeong YH et al. 2015. Discrimination between active and latent tuberculosis based on ratio of antigen-specific to mitogen-induced IP-10 production. J Clin Microbiol 53: 504–510.
Wang F, Hou H, Xu L, Jane M, Peng J, Lu Y, Zhu Y, Sun Z, 2013. Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific TNF-α is a potential biomarker for the rapid diagnosis of active tuberculosis disease in Chinese population. PLoS One 8: e79431.
Tobin DM et al. 2012. Host genotype-specific therapies can optimize the inflammatory response to mycobacterial infections. Cell 148: 434–446.
Harishankar M, Selvaraj P, Bethunaickan R, 2018. Influence of genetic polymorphism towards pulmonary tuberculosis susceptibility. Front Med (Laussanne) 5: 213.
Roca FJ, Ramakrishnan L, 2013. TNF dually mediates resistance and susceptibility to mycobacteria via mitochondrial reactive oxygen species. Cell 153: 521–534.
Bahr NC, Tugume L, Rajasingham R, Kiggundu R, Williams DA, Morawski B, Alland D, Meya DB, Rhein J, Boulware DR, 2015. Improved diagnostic sensitivity for tuberculous meningitis with Xpert(®) MTB/RIF of centrifuged CSF: a prospective study. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 19: 1209–1215.
Bonington A, Strang JI, Klapper PE, Hood SV, Rubombora W, Penny M, Willers R, Wilkins EG, 1998. Use of Roche AMPLICOR Mycobacterium tuberculosis PCR in early diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis. J Clin Microbiol 36: 1251–1254.
Shirani K, Talaei Z, Yaran M, Ataei B, Mehrabi-Koushki A, Khorvash F, 2015. Diagnosed tuberculous meningitis using cerebrospinal fluid polymerase chain reaction in patients hospitalized with the diagnosis of meningitis in referral hospitals in Isfahan. J Res Med Sci 20: 224–227.
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