[HTML][HTML] Differential diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection and active tuberculosis: a key to a successful tuberculosis control strategy

W Gong, X Wu - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
As an ancient infectious disease, tuberculosis (TB) is still the leading cause of death from a
single infectious agent worldwide. Latent TB infection (LTBI) has been recognized as the …

[HTML][HTML] Bridging the gaps to overcome major hurdles in the development of next-generation tuberculosis vaccines

H Kim, HG Choi, SJ Shin - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Although tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading causes of death from an infectious
disease worldwide, the development of vaccines more effective than bacille Calmette …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis PknK substrate profiling reveals essential transcription terminator protein Rho and two-component response regulators PrrA and MtrA as …

V Malhotra, BP Okon, AT Satsangi, S Das… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein kinase K regulates growth adaptation by facilitating
mycobacterial survival in response to a variety of in vitro and in vivo stress conditions. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the contribution of metabolism to Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug tolerance

AN Samuels, ER Wang, GA Harrison… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infections is particularly arduous. One
challenge to effectively treating tuberculosis is that drug efficacy in vivo often fails to match …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptation of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis transcriptome to biofilm growth

MA Youngblom, TM Smith, HJ Murray… - Plos …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), is a leading
global cause of death from infectious disease. Biofilms are increasingly recognized as a …

[HTML][HTML] Immunometabolism of Immune Cells in Mucosal Environment Drives Effector Responses against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

MH Tukiman, MN Norazmi - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tuberculosis remains a major threat to global public health, with more than 1.5 million
deaths recorded in 2020. Improved interventions against tuberculosis are urgently needed …

[HTML][HTML] Mycobacterium abscessus DosRS two-component system controls a species-specific regulon required for adaptation to hypoxia

BS Simcox, BR Tomlinson, LN Shaw… - Frontiers in Cellular and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Mycobacterium abscessus (Mab), an emerging opportunistic pathogen, predominantly
infects individuals with underlying pulmonary diseases such as cystic fibrosis (CF). Current …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence, challenges, and knowledge gaps regarding latent tuberculosis in animals

P Ncube, B Bagheri, WJ Goosen, MA Miller… - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Mycobacterium bovis and other Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) pathogens
that cause domestic animal and wildlife tuberculosis have received considerably less …

[HTML][HTML] SigE: A master regulator of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

R Manganelli, L Cioetto-Mazzabò… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The Extracellular function (ECF) sigma factor SigE is one of the best characterized out of the
13 sigma factors encoded in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis chromosome. SigE is required …

[HTML][HTML] Dormancy: There and back again

ES Pshennikova, AS Voronina - Molecular Biology, 2022 - Springer
Many cells are capable of maintaining viability in a non-dividing state with minimal
metabolism under unfavorable conditions. These are germ cells, adult stem cells, and …