The authors of the work determine the serum levels of neopterin and ceruloplasmin in tuberculosis patients with and without anemia, to study the effect of serum neopterin on the development of anemia in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and its correlation with the amount of erythrocytes and hemoglobin in blood and ceruloplasmin in serum.
Reliable moderate negative correlations (r=-0.43; p=0.04) between serum neopterin and the hemoglobin level determined in the blood of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis indicate that it affects the mechanisms of development of anemia in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.