From immunology to artificial intelligence: revolutionizing latent tuberculosis infection diagnosis with machine learning

LS Li, L Yang, L Zhuang, ZY Ye, WG Zhao… - Military Medical …, 2023‏ - Springer
Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) has become a major source of active tuberculosis (ATB).
Although the tuberculin skin test and interferon-gamma release assay can be used to …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis: success through dormancy

M Gengenbacher, SHE Kaufmann - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2012‏ - academic.oup.com
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major health threat, killing nearly 2 million individuals around
this globe, annually. The only vaccine, developed almost a century ago, provides limited …

Genomics of Actinobacteria: Tracing the Evolutionary History of an Ancient Phylum

M Ventura, C Canchaya, A Tauch… - Microbiology and …, 2007‏ - journals.asm.org
Actinobacteria constitute one of the largest phyla among Bacteria and represent gram-
positive bacteria with a high G+ C content in their DNA. This bacterial group includes …

Antimicrobial mechanisms of phagocytes and bacterial evasion strategies

RS Flannagan, G Cosío, S Grinstein - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2009‏ - nature.com
Professional phagocytes have a vast and sophisticated arsenal of microbicidal features.
They are capable of ingesting and destroying invading organisms, and can present …

Genomic islands: tools of bacterial horizontal gene transfer and evolution

M Juhas, JR Van Der Meer, M Gaillard… - FEMS microbiology …, 2009‏ - academic.oup.com
Bacterial genomes evolve through mutations, rearrangements or horizontal gene transfer.
Besides the core genes encoding essential metabolic functions, bacterial genomes also …

ESX‐1 and phthiocerol dimycocerosates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis act in concert to cause phagosomal rupture and host cell apoptosis

J Augenstreich, A Arbues, R Simeone… - Cellular …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Although phthiocerol dimycocerosates (DIM) are major virulence factors of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of human tuberculosis, little is known about their …

Terpene biosynthesis: modularity rules

E Oldfield, FY Lin - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Terpenes are the largest class of small‐molecule natural products on earth, and the most
abundant by mass. Here, we summarize recent developments in elucidating the structure …

A terpene nucleoside from M. tuberculosis induces lysosomal lipid storage in foamy macrophages

M Bedard, S van der Niet, EM Bernard… - The Journal of clinical …, 2023‏ - jci.org
Induction of lipid-laden foamy macrophages is a cellular hallmark of tuberculosis (TB)
disease, which involves the transformation of infected phagolysosomes from a site of killing …

[HTML][HTML] Mycobacterium tuberculosis suppresses host DNA repair to boost its intracellular survival

S Liu, L Guan, C Peng, Y Cheng, H Cheng, F Wang… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2023‏ - cell.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) triggers distinct changes in macrophages, resulting in the
formation of lipid droplets that serve as a nutrient source. We discover that Mtb promotes …

Who puts the tubercle in tuberculosis?

DG Russell - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2007‏ - nature.com
Tuberculosis (TB), an illness that mainly affects the respiratory system, is one of the world's
most pernicious diseases. TB currently infects one-third of the world's population and kills …