Teams practising medically assisted reproduction techniques try to avoid viruses as much
as possible. Attitudes towards chronic carriers of viruses are rapidly changing, especially for …

Tuberculosis is the most widespread and lethal infectious disease affecting humans.
Immunization of mice with plasmid DNA constructs encoding one of the secreted components of …

Background The detection of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is a major component of
tuberculosis (TB) control strategies. In addition to the tuberculosis skin test (TST), novel blood …

BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice were injected intramuscularly with plasmid DNA encoding the
three components of the immunodominant 30–32 kDa antigen 85 complex (Ag85A, Ag85B, …

Today, in developed countries, many HIV-infected people remain in good health thanks to
antiviral medication. A growing number of them want to have children. Medical possibilities for …

… JP van Vooren … A study performed in Japan also showed that maximal levels of IL–2 and
IFN–γ in the urine or in the serum were measured after the 4th instillation [11]. Noteworthy, …

Because only 10% of individuals infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis will eventually
develop disease, antigens that are recognized differently by the immune systems of infected …

Buruli ulcer, caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, is characterized by deep and necrotizing
skin lesions, mostly on the arms and legs. Together with tuberculosis and leprosy, this …

… Van Vooren. 1991. An isoelectric focusing method for the study of the humoral response
against the antigen 85 complex of Mycobactenum bovis BCG in different forms of leprosy. …

… Van Snick). We previously reported that non-T cells are the main IL-6-producing cells in
BCG-… Van Vooren. 1990. Repertoires of antibodies to culture filtrate antigens in different mouse …