The impact of drug resistance on Mycobacterium tuberculosis physiology: what can we learn from rifampicin?

A Koch, V Mizrahi, DF Warner - Emerging microbes & infections, 2014‏ - Taylor & Francis
The emergence of drug-resistant pathogens poses a major threat to public health. Although
influenced by multiple factors, high-level resistance is often associated with mutations in …

Nontuberculous mycobacteria and heterologous immunity to tuberculosis

JA Shah, CS Lindestam Arlehamn… - The Journal of …, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract Development of an improved tuberculosis (TB) vaccine is a high worldwide public
health priority. Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), the only licensed TB vaccine, provides …

Antibody Fc glycosylation discriminates between latent and active tuberculosis

LL Lu, J Das, PS Grace, SM Fortune… - The Journal of …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Background Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains a global health problem and clinical
management is complicated by difficulty in discriminating between latent infection and active …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteome microarray for global studies of protein function and immunogenicity

J Deng, L Bi, L Zhou, S Guo, J Fleming, H Jiang… - Cell reports, 2014‏ - cell.com
Poor understanding of the basic biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), the
etiological agent of tuberculosis, hampers development of much-needed drugs, vaccines …

Multiparameter immunoprofiling for the diagnosis and differentiation of progressive versus nonprogressive nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease–A pilot study

PK Marty, B Pathakumari, TM Cox, VP Van Keulen… - Plos one, 2024‏ - journals.plos.org
Clinical prediction of nontuberculous mycobacteria lung disease (NTM-LD) progression
remains challenging. We aimed to evaluate antigen-specific immunoprofiling utilizing flow …

Proteomic characterisation of bovine and avian purified protein derivatives and identification of specific antigens for serodiagnosis of bovine tuberculosis

JA Infantes-Lorenzo, I Moreno, MLÁ Risalde, Á Roy… - Clinical Proteomics, 2017‏ - Springer
Background Bovine purified protein derivative (bPPD) and avian purified protein derivative
(aPPD) are widely used for bovine tuberculosis diagnosis. However, little is known about …

Mycobacteria-Specific T Cells Are Generated in the Lung During Mucosal BCG Immunization or Infection With Mycobacterium tuberculosis

JI Basile, R Liu, W Mou, Y Gao, B Carow… - Frontiers in …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Specific T cell responses are central for protection against infection with M. tuberculosis.
Here we show that mycobacteria-specific CD4 and CD8 T cells accumulated in the lung but …

Nonmolecular methods for the diagnosis of respiratory fungal infections

F Lamoth, BD Alexander - Clinics in laboratory medicine, 2014‏ - labmed.theclinics.com
Fungal pneumonias are an important cause of mortality among an increasing diversity of
immunosuppressed populations, such as patients who have hematologic cancer, transplant …

[PDF][PDF] The role of protein aggregation in the pathogenesis of inclusion body myositis

AM Snedden, KAB Kellett, JB Lilleker… - Clin Exp …, 2022‏ - researchgate.net
Inclusion body myositis (IBM) is characterised by infiltration of CD8+ T-cells and signs of
protein aggregation such as rimmed vacuoles and inclusion bodies. Aggregated proteins …