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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Yi F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6756716 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Medicine 20190901 38
<h4>Background</h4>Malignant pleural effusion (MPE) and tuberculosis pleural effusion (TPE) are 2 kinds of common pleural diseases. Finding efficient and accurate biomarkers to distinguish the 2 is of benefit to basic and clinical research. In the present study, we carried out the first high-throughput autoantibody chip to screen the beneficial biomarker with samples of MPE and TPE and the corresponding serum.<h4>Methods</h4>We collected pleural effusion and serum of patients with MPE (n = 10) a ...[more]