Cell-mediated immune responses in tuberculosis

AM Cooper - Annual review of immunology, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Tuberculosis is primarily a disease of the lung, and dissemination of the disease depends
on productive infection of this critical organ. Upon aerosol infection with Mycobacterium …

BCG-induced cross-protection and development of trained immunity: implication for vaccine design

C Covián, A Fernández-Fierro, A Retamal-Díaz… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is a live attenuated tuberculosis vaccine that has the
ability to induce non-specific cross-protection against pathogens that might be unrelated to …

T cells and adaptive immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in humans

LD Jasenosky, TJ Scriba, WA Hanekom… - Immunological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The adaptive immune response mediated by T cells is critical for control of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) infection in humans. However, the M. tuberculosis antigens …

Biomarkers and diagnostics for tuberculosis: progress, needs, and translation into practice

RS Wallis, M Pai, D Menzies, TM Doherty, G Walzl… - The lancet, 2010 - thelancet.com
Human infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis can progress to active disease, be
contained as latent infection, or be eradicated by the host response. Tuberculosis …

In search of a new paradigm for protective immunity to TB

C Nunes-Alves, MG Booty, SM Carpenter… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Clinical trials of vaccines against Mycobacterium tuberculosis are well under way and
results are starting to come in. Some of these results are not so encouraging, as exemplified …

Specific T cell frequency and cytokine expression profile do not correlate with protection against tuberculosis after bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccination of newborns

BMN Kagina, B Abel, TJ Scriba, EJ Hughes… - American journal of …, 2010 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Immunogenicity of new tuberculosis (TB) vaccines is commonly assessed by
measuring the frequency and cytokine expression profile of T cells. Objectives: We tested …

Functional Signatures of Human CD4 and CD8 T Cell Responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

T Prezzemolo, G Guggino, MP La Manna… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
With 1.4 million deaths and 8.7 million new cases in 2011, tuberculosis (TB) remains a
global health care problem and together with HIV and Malaria represents one of the three …

Efficacy and Safety of BCG Revaccination With M. bovis BCG Moscow to Prevent COVID-19 Infection in Health Care Workers: A Randomized Phase II Clinical Trial

LRB Dos Anjos, AC da Costa, ARO Cardoso… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, which is widely used to protect children
against tuberculosis, can also improve immune response against viral infections. This …

Multifunctional CD4+ T cells correlate with active Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

N Caccamo, G Guggino, SA Joosten… - European journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Th1 CD4+ T cells and their derived cytokines are crucial for protection against
Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Using multiparametric flow cytometry, we have evaluated the …

Immune Responses to Bacillus Calmette–Guérin Vaccination: Why Do They Fail to Protect against Mycobacterium tuberculosis?

JI Moliva, J Turner, JB Torrelles - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), is the current
leading cause of death due to a single infectious organism. Although curable, the broad …