Immune evasion and provocation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis

P Chandra, SJ Grigsby, JA Philips - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022‏ - nature.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, has infected humans for
millennia. M. tuberculosis is well adapted to establish infection, persist in the face of the host …

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 …

Inflammasome activation at the crux of severe COVID-19

SM Vora, J Lieberman, H Wu - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021‏ - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), results in life-threatening disease in a minority of patients, especially elderly …

Pathological inflammation in patients with COVID-19: a key role for monocytes and macrophages

M Merad, JC Martin - Nature reviews immunology, 2020‏ - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by infection with SARS-CoV-2 has led to more than
200,000 deaths worldwide. Several studies have now established that the …

Mitochondrial DNA in inflammation and immunity

JS Riley, SWG Tait - EMBO reports, 2020‏ - embopress.org
Mitochondria are cellular organelles that orchestrate a vast range of biological processes,
from energy production and metabolism to cell death and inflammation. Despite this …

Interferon-γ and infectious diseases: Lessons and prospects

JL Casanova, JD MacMicking, CF Nathan - Science, 2024‏ - science.org
Infectious diseases continue to claim many lives. Prevention of morbidity and mortality from
these diseases would benefit not just from new medicines and vaccines but also from a …

The Innate Immune Response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection

MM Ravesloot-Chávez, E Van Dis… - Annual review of …, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes> 1.5 million deaths worldwide annually.
Innate immune cells are the first to encounter M. tuberculosis, and their response dictates …

Immunology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infections

JK Sia, J Rengarajan - Microbiology spectrum, 2019‏ - journals.asm.org
Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious global public health challenge that results in significant
morbidity and mortality worldwide. TB is caused by infection with the bacilli Mycobacterium …

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 …

Dysregulated type I interferon and inflammatory monocyte-macrophage responses cause lethal pneumonia in SARS-CoV-infected mice

R Channappanavar, AR Fehr, R Vijay, M Mack… - Cell host & …, 2016‏ - cell.com
Highly pathogenic human respiratory coronaviruses cause acute lethal disease
characterized by exuberant inflammatory responses and lung damage. However, the factors …