Personalized vaccinology: a review

GA Poland, IG Ovsyannikova, RB Kennedy - Vaccine, 2018‏ - Elsevier
At the current time, the field of vaccinology remains empirical in many respects. Vaccine
development, vaccine immunogenicity, and vaccine efficacy have, for the most part …

A review of HLA allele and SNP associations with highly prevalent infectious diseases in human populations

A Sanchez-Mazas - Swiss medical weekly, 2020‏ - smw.ch
Human leucocyte antigen (HLA) alleles and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) lying
in the HLA region are known to be associated with several infectious diseases among which …

Ancient DNA study reveals HLA susceptibility locus for leprosy in medieval Europeans

B Krause-Kyora, M Nutsua, L Boehme, F Pierini… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Leprosy, a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae), was very
common in Europe till the 16th century. Here, we perform an ancient DNA study on medieval …

Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system: genetics and association with bacterial and viral infections

S Medhasi, N Chantratita - Journal of Immunology Research, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system is one of the most crucial host factors
influencing disease progression in bacterial and viral infections. This review provides the …

Genetics of leprosy: today and beyond

VM Fava, M Dallmann-Sauer, E Schurr - Human genetics, 2020‏ - Springer
Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease of the skin and peripheral nerves that presents a
strong link with the host genetic background. Different approaches in genetic studies have …

Human leukocyte antigen and tumor immunotherapy

DH Liu, FF Mou, M An, P **a - … Journal of Oncology, 2023‏ - spandidos-publications.com
Malignant tumors seriously endanger human health and life, and restrict economic
development. Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) is the expression product of the human major …

The complex pattern of genetic associations of leprosy with HLA class I and class II alleles can be reduced to four amino acid positions

M Dallmann-Sauer, VM Fava, C Gzara, M Orlova… - PLoS …, 2020‏ - journals.plos.org
Leprosy is a chronic disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. Worldwide, more than
200,000 new patients are affected by leprosy annually, making it the second most common …

Genetic susceptibility to leprosy—from classic immune-related candidate genes to hypothesis-free, whole genome approaches

G Cambri, MT Mira - Frontiers in immunology, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Genetics plays a crucial role in controlling susceptibility to infectious diseases by modulating
the interplay between humans and pathogens. This is particularly evident in leprosy, since …

[HTML][HTML] CD4+ Cytotoxic T cells involved in the development of EBV-associated diseases

M Ruiz-Pablos - Pathogens, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Activated cytotoxic CD4 T cells (HLA-DR+) play an important role in the control of EBV
infection, especially in cells with latency I (EBNA-1). One of the evasion mechanisms of …

Human genetics of mycobacterial disease

M Dallmann-Sauer, W Correa-Macedo, E Schurr - Mammalian Genome, 2018‏ - Springer
Mycobacterial diseases are caused by members of the genus Mycobacterium, acid-fast
bacteria characterized by the presence of mycolic acids within their cell walls. Claiming …