The mycobacterial cell envelope—a moving target

CL Dulberger, EJ Rubin, CC Boutte - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the leading cause of death due to infection, has a dynamic and
immunomodulatory cell envelope. The cell envelope structurally and functionally varies …

Immunology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infections

JK Sia, J Rengarajan - Microbiology spectrum, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
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 …

The immune response in tuberculosis

A O'Garra, PS Redford, FW McNab… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
There are 9 million cases of active tuberculosis reported annually; however, an estimated
one-third of the world's population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and remains …

Immunoinformatics-guided designing of epitope-based subunit vaccine from Pilus assembly protein of Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria

SR Mahapatra, J Dey, A Jaiswal, R Roy, N Misra… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Acinetobacter baumannii, a prominent pathogen responsible for chronic infections in the
blood, urinary tract, and lungs, has a high mortality due to its virulence and limited …

In search of a new paradigm for protective immunity to TB

C Nunes-Alves, MG Booty, SM Carpenter… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Clinical trials of vaccines against Mycobacterium tuberculosis are well under way and
results are starting to come in. Some of these results are not so encouraging, as exemplified …

Vaccines against tuberculosis: where are we and where do we need to go?

THM Ottenhoff, SHE Kaufmann - PLoS pathogens, 2012 - journals.plos.org
In this review we discuss recent progress in the development, testing, and clinical evaluation
of new vaccines against tuberculosis (TB). Over the last 20 years, tremendous progress has …

[HTML][HTML] Macrophages and control of granulomatous inflammation in tuberculosis

JL Flynn, J Chan, PL Lin - Mucosal immunology, 2011 - Elsevier
The granuloma that forms in response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis must be carefully
balanced in terms of immune responses to provide sufficient immune cell activation to inhibit …

Immune Responses to Bacillus Calmette–Guérin Vaccination: Why Do They Fail to Protect against Mycobacterium tuberculosis?

JI Moliva, J Turner, JB Torrelles - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), is the current
leading cause of death due to a single infectious organism. Although curable, the broad …

Infectious complications of biological and small molecule targeted immunomodulatory therapies

JS Davis, D Ferreira, E Paige, C Gedye… - Clinical microbiology …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
The past 2 decades have seen a revolution in our approach to therapeutic
immunosuppression. We have moved from relying on broadly active traditional medications …

The humoral immune response to BCG vaccination

R Tanner, B Villarreal-Ramos… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Bacillus Calmette Guérin (BCG) is the only currently available vaccine against tuberculosis
(TB), but it confers incomplete and variable protection against pulmonary TB in humans and …