Molecular mechanisms for enhanced DNA vaccine immunogenicity

L Li, N Petrovsky - Expert review of vaccines, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In the two decades since their initial discovery, DNA vaccines technologies have come a
long way. Unfortunately, when applied to human subjects inadequate immunogenicity is still …

Next-generation vaccines based on Bacille Calmette–Guérin

NE Nieuwenhuizen, SHE Kaufmann - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the intracellular bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb),
remains a major health threat. A live, attenuated mycobacterium known as Bacille Calmette …

Exosomes carrying mycobacterial antigens can protect mice against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

Y Cheng, JS Schorey - European journal of immunology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Approximately 2 billion people are infected with M ycobacterium tuberculosis, the etiological
agent of tuberculosis (TB), and an estimated 1.5 million individuals die annually from TB …

Antigen 85 complex as a powerful Mycobacterium tuberculosis immunogene: Biology, immune-pathogenicity, applications in diagnosis, and vaccine design

MKZ Babaki, S Soleimanpour, SA Rezaee - Microbial pathogenesis, 2017 - Elsevier
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is one of the most life-threatening mycobacterial species
which is increasing the death rate due to emerging multi-drug resistant (MDR) strains …

Prospects in Mycobacterium bovis Bacille Calmette et Guérin (BCG) vaccine diversity and delivery: why does BCG fail to protect against tuberculosis?

JI Moliva, J Turner, JB Torrelles - Vaccine, 2015 - Elsevier
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) infection leads to active tuberculosis (TB), a disease that
kills one human every 18 s. Current therapies available to combat TB include chemotherapy …

Antimicrobial peptides in domestic animals and their applications in veterinary medicine

CE Valdez-Miramontes, J De Haro-Acosta… - Peptides, 2021 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are molecules with a broad-spectrum activity against
bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and viruses. These peptides are widely distributed in insects …

Dissecting the relationship between antimicrobial peptides and mesenchymal stem cells

AÉ Silva-Carvalho, MH Cardoso, T Alencar-Silva… - Pharmacology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Among the various biological properties presented by Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs),
their ability to control the immune response and fight pathogen infection through the …

Antimicrobial peptides as novel anti-tuberculosis therapeutics

JP Silva, R Appelberg, FM Gama - Biotechnology advances, 2016 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB), a disease caused by the human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
has recently joined HIV/AIDS as the world's deadliest infectious disease, affecting around …

[HTML][HTML] A review of preclinical animal models utilised for TB vaccine evaluation in the context of recent human efficacy data

H McShane, A Williams - Tuberculosis, 2014 - Elsevier
There is an urgent need for an improved TB vaccine. Vaccine development is hindered by
the lack of immune correlates and uncertain predictive value of preclinical animal models …

DNA and RNA vaccines against tuberculosis: a scoping review of human and animal studies

A Kazakova, P Zhelnov, R Sidorov, A Rogova… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction To comprehensively identify and provide an overview of in vivo or clinical
studies of nucleic acids (NA)-based vaccines against TB we included human or animal …