Host-directed immunotherapy of viral and bacterial infections: past, present and future

RS Wallis, A O'Garra, A Sher, A Wack - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
The advent of COVID-19 and the persistent threat of infectious diseases such as
tuberculosis, malaria, influenza and HIV/AIDS remind us of the marked impact that infections …

[HTML][HTML] Host-directed therapies for bacterial and viral infections

SHE Kaufmann, A Dorhoi, RS Hotchkiss… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Despite the recent increase in the development of antivirals and antibiotics, antimicrobial
resistance and the lack of broad-spectrum virus-targeting drugs are still important issues and …

Tuberculous meningitis

RJ Wilkinson, U Rohlwink, UK Misra… - Nature reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Tuberculosis remains a global health problem, with an estimated 10.4 million cases and 1.8
million deaths resulting from the disease in 2015. The most lethal and disabling form of …

[HTML][HTML] Host genotype-specific therapies can optimize the inflammatory response to mycobacterial infections

DM Tobin, FJ Roca, SF Oh, R McFarland, TW Vickery… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Susceptibility to tuberculosis is historically ascribed to an inadequate immune response that
fails to control infecting mycobacteria. In zebrafish, we find that susceptibility to …

Tuberculous meningitis: more questions, still too few answers

GE Thwaites, R van Toorn, J Schoeman - The Lancet Neurology, 2013 - thelancet.com
Tuberculous meningitis is especially common in young children and people with untreated
HIV infection, and it kills or disables roughly half of everyone affected. Childhood disease …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic host-directed strategies to improve outcome in tuberculosis

C Young, G Walzl, N Du Plessis - Mucosal immunology, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the only licenced tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, but
has limited efficacy against pulmonary TB disease development and modest protection …

Drug repurposing for the treatment of bacterial and fungal infections

A Miró-Canturri, R Ayerbe-Algaba… - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens pose a well-recognized global health threat that
demands effective solutions; the situation is deemed a global priority by the World Health …

The pathogenesis of tuberculous meningitis

AG Davis, UK Rohlwink, A Proust… - Journal of leukocyte …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of death globally. Dissemination of TB to the
brain results in the most severe form of extrapulmonary TB, tuberculous meningitis (TBM) …

Host‐directed therapy to combat mycobacterial infections

G Kilinç, A Saris, THM Ottenhoff… - Immunological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Upon infection, mycobacteria, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and
nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), are recognized by host innate immune cells, triggering …

[HTML][HTML] The current global situation for tuberculous meningitis: epidemiology, diagnostics, treatment and outcomes

JA Seddon, L Tugume, R Solomons… - Wellcome open …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) results from dissemination of M. tuberculosis to the
cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and meninges. Ischaemia, hydrocephalus and raised intracranial …