US Patent 7115361 Detection of CD8+ T cell responses to

A method of detecting an anti-mycobacterial CD8 T cell response comprising contacting a population of CD8 T cells of an individual with one or more peptides selected from the peptides represented by SEQ ID NO: 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12, and, optionally, one or two further peptides represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 and/or 2, wherein one or more of said peptides may be substituted by an analogue which binds a T cell receptor which recognises the corresponding substituted peptide, and determining whether CD8 T cells of the CD8 T cell population recognize the peptide(s).