IFNG and tuberculosis: Nevertheless, after 6 months of therapy, only DR-TB patients decreased the frequency of actCD4+ tmTNF+ and actCD4+ tmTNFR2+, exhibited a systemic inflammatory status (high levels of TNF, IFN-γ and IL-12), and their purified CD4+ T cells showed that TNF and TNFR2 are up-regulated at the transcriptional level.