CD4+ CD25+ FOXP3+ T cell frequency in the peripheral blood is a biomarker that distinguishes intestinal tuberculosis from Crohn's disease.
Veena TiwariSaurabh KediaSushil Kumar GargRitika RampalV Pratap MouliAnuja PurwarD K MitraPrasenjit DasS DattaguptaGovind MakhariaS K AcharyaVineet AhujaPublished in: PloS one (2018)
Phenotypic enumeration of peripheral CD4+CD25+FOXP3+ Treg cells can be used as a non-invasive biomarker in clinics with a high diagnostic accuracy to differentiate between ITB and CD in regions where TB is endemic.