Immune cell interactions in tuberculosis

JAL Flynn, J Chan - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Despite having been identified as the organism that causes tuberculosis in 1882,
Mycobacterium tuberculosis has managed to still evade our understanding of the protective …

New insights into the evasion of host innate immunity by Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Q Chai, L Wang, CH Liu, B Ge - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is an extremely successful intracellular pathogen that
causes tuberculosis (TB), which remains the leading infectious cause of human death. The …

Differential diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection and active tuberculosis: a key to a successful tuberculosis control strategy

W Gong, X Wu - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
As an ancient infectious disease, tuberculosis (TB) is still the leading cause of death from a
single infectious agent worldwide. Latent TB infection (LTBI) has been recognized as the …

The relationship between nutrition and the immune system

C Munteanu, B Schwartz - Frontiers in nutrition, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Nutrition plays an essential role in the regulation of optimal immunological response, by
providing adequate nutrients in sufficient concentrations to immune cells. There are a large …

Clinical utility of in-house metagenomic next-generation sequencing for the diagnosis of lower respiratory tract infections and analysis of the host immune response

H Chen, Y Yin, H Gao, Y Guo, Z Dong… - Clinical Infectious …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Only few pathogens that cause lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) can be
identified due to limitations of traditional microbiological methods and the complexity of the …

Dynamic balance of pro‐and anti‐inflammatory signals controls disease and limits pathology

JM Cicchese, S Evans, C Hult, LR Joslyn… - Immunological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Immune responses to pathogens are complex and not well understood in many diseases,
and this is especially true for infections by persistent pathogens. One mechanism that allows …

Harnessing the beneficial heterologous effects of vaccination

HS Goodridge, SS Ahmed, N Curtis… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Clinical evidence strongly suggests that certain live vaccines, in particular bacille Calmette–
Guérin (BCG) and measles vaccines, can reduce all-cause mortality, most probably through …

Sequential inflammatory processes define human progression from M. tuberculosis infection to tuberculosis disease

TJ Scriba, A Penn-Nicholson, S Shankar… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Our understanding of mechanisms underlying progression from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
infection to pulmonary tuberculosis disease in humans remains limited. To define such …

Tissue-resident-like CD4+ T cells secreting IL-17 control Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the human lung

P Ogongo, LB Tezera, A Ardain… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
T cell immunity is essential for the control of tuberculosis (TB), an important disease of the
lung, and is generally studied in humans using peripheral blood cells. Mounting evidence …

In the thick of it: formation of the tuberculous granuloma and its effects on host and therapeutic responses

MR Cronan - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The defining pathology of tuberculosis is the granuloma, an organized structure derived from
host immune cells that surrounds infecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis. As the location of …