Pleural tuberculosis (TB) as well as lymphatic TB constitutes more than half of all extrapulmonary cases. CCR5 the primary receptor used by MCP-2/CCL8 is mostly expressed on pleural CD4+ T lymphocytes. Furthermore we found that infection with either Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) or H37Rv induced production of MCP-2/CCL8 at both transcriptional and protein level in Mouse… Continue reading Pleural tuberculosis (TB) as well as lymphatic TB constitutes more than