Table 2.

Production and application of IgYs specific to Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Immunogen	Activity/Properties	Reference
Formaldehyde-fixed strains of M. tuberculosis (ATCC H37 Rv)	In vitro; immunoblotting, ELISA; IgY antibodies specific to M. tuberculosis	Sudjarwo et al. (40)
No specified data	In vitro; PBMC viability assay, ELISA; IgY anti-M. tuberculosis increased IL-2 and INF-γ production in rat PBMC; no specified data concerning adjuvant	Sudjarwo et al. (41)

If not specified in the Activity/Properties column, then FCA/Freund's Incomplete Adjuvant (FIA) was used as an adjuvant.