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 …

Tuberculosis treatment monitoring and outcome measures: new interest and new strategies

J Heyckendorf, SB Georghiou, N Frahm… - Clinical microbiology …, 2022 - journals.asm.org
Despite the advent of new diagnostics, drugs and regimens, tuberculosis (TB) remains a
global public health threat. A significant challenge for TB control efforts has been the …

Age and sex influence antibody profiles associated with tuberculosis progression

LRL Davies, C Wang, P Steigler, KA Bowman… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Antibody features vary with tuberculosis (TB) disease state. Whether clinical variables, such
as age or sex, influence associations between Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific antibody …

Reimagining the status quo: How close are we to rapid sputum-free tuberculosis diagnostics for all?

RR Nathavitharana, AL Garcia-Basteiro, M Ruhwald… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Rapid, accurate, sputum-free tests for tuberculosis (TB) triage and confirmation are urgently
needed to close the widening diagnostic gap. We summarise key technologies and review …

[HTML][HTML] Ultra-low dose aerosol infection of mice with Mycobacterium tuberculosis more closely models human tuberculosis

CR Plumlee, FJ Duffy, BH Gern, JL Delahaye… - Cell host & …, 2021 - cell.com
Tuberculosis (TB) is a heterogeneous disease manifesting in a subset of individuals infected
with aerosolized Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Unlike human TB, murine infection …

Diagnosis and biomarkers for ocular tuberculosis: From the present into the future

Z Ludi, AA Sule, RP Samy, I Putera, B Schrijver… - …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tuberculosis is an airborne disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and can
manifest both pulmonary and extrapulmonary disease, including ocular tuberculosis (OTB) …

Blood transcriptomics reveal the evolution and resolution of the immune response in tuberculosis

O Tabone, R Verma, A Singhania… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - rupress.org
Blood transcriptomics have revealed major characteristics of the immune response in active
TB, but the signature early after infection is unknown. In a unique clinically and temporally …

[HTML][HTML] Key recent advances in TB vaccine development and understanding of protective immune responses against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

TJ Scriba, MG Netea, AM Ginsberg - Seminars in immunology, 2020 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis is the leading infectious disease killer globally due to a single pathogen.
Despite wide deployment of standard drug regimens, modern diagnostics and a vaccine …

Revisiting the methods for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis: what has the new millennium brought thus far?

TA Campelo, PR Cardoso de Sousa… - Access …, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
Tuberculosis (TB) affects around 10 million people worldwide in 2019. Approximately 3.4%
of new TB cases are multidrug-resistant. The gold standard method for detecting …

Transcriptomics for child and adolescent tuberculosis

M Kaforou, C Broderick, O Vito, M Levin… - Immunological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tuberculosis (TB) in humans is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). It is estimated
that 70 million children (< 15 years) are currently infected with Mtb, with 1.2 million each year …