Correlation of serum tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interleukin-4 and soluble interleukin-2 receptor levels with radiologic and clinical manifestations in active pulmonary tuberculosis.

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Published in Mediators Inflamm on February 01, 2003

Authors

Levent Kart1, Hakan Buyukoglan, Ishak O Tekin, Remzi Altin, Zuhal Senturk, Inci Gulmez, Ramazan Demir, Mustafa Ozesmi

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Zonguldak Karaelmas University, 67600 Zonguldak, Turkey. kartlevent@yahoo.co.uk

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