Serodiagnosis of tuberculosis using purified native antigens is one of the approach for the early detection of TB. This protocol gives the details for growing Mycobacterium tuberculosis in liquid culture and one proven way to get a good yield of the total secreted antigens in the culture supernatant. In addition the procedure for purification of the 38 kDa antigen from the total culture filtrate antigens is also explained. 38 kDa is one of the specific antigen for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and in this particular study it was used as one of the antigens for serodiagnosis of different category of tuberculosis patients.
Ranganathan, U. D. (2012). Purification of 38kDa Antigen of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Two Dimensional Preparative Electrophoresis. Bio-protocol 2(24): e312. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.312.