Phagocytosis is a fundamental process of cells to capture and ingest foreign particles. Small
unicellular organisms such as free-living amoeba use this process to acquire food. In …

Bacterial capsules have evolved to be at the forefront of the cell envelope, making them an
essential element of bacterial biology. Efforts to understand the Mycobacterium tuberculosis …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) can withstand months of antibiotic treatment. An important
goal of tuberculosis research is to shorten the treatment to reduce the burden on patients …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) modulates diverse cell death pathways to escape the host
immune responses and favor its dissemination, a complex process of interest in …

Macrophages play an essential role in the immune system by ingesting and degrading
invading pathogens, initiating an inflammatory response and instructing adaptive immune …

Abstract Mannose-capped lipoarabinomannan (ManLAM), present in all members of the
Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and in other pathogenic Mycobacterium spp, is a high …

Sensitive and specific blood-based assays for the detection of pulmonary and
extrapulmonary tuberculosis would reduce mortality associated with missed diagnoses …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) has co-evolved with humans for thousands of years, to
cause tuberculosis (TB). The success of M. tb as a pathogen is in part because of the ways …

Lipoarabinomannan is a major immunomodulatory lipoglycan found in the cell envelope of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis and related human pathogens. It reproduces several salient …

The intracellular viral, bacterial, or parasitic pathogens evade the host immune challenges to
propagate and cause fatal diseases. The microbes overpower host immunity at various …