Tuberculous meningitis: pathogenesis, immune responses, diagnostic challenges, and the potential of biomarker-based approaches

CM Manyelo, RS Solomons, G Walzl… - Journal of clinical …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is the most devastating form of tuberculosis (TB), causing
high mortality or disability. Clinical management of the disease is challenging due to …

Recent advances in the detection of interferon-gamma as a TB biomarker

KC Januarie, OV Uhuo, E Iwuoha, U Feleni - Analytical and Bioanalytical …, 2022 - Springer
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the main infectious diseases worldwide and accounts for many
deaths. It is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis usually affecting the lungs of patients …

RISK6, a 6-gene transcriptomic signature of TB disease risk, diagnosis and treatment response

A Penn-Nicholson, SK Mbandi, E Thompson… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Improved tuberculosis diagnostics and tools for monitoring treatment response are urgently
needed. We developed a robust and simple, PCR-based host-blood transcriptomic …

Screening for latent tuberculosis infection in adults: updated evidence report and systematic review for the US Preventive Services Task Force

DE Jonas, SR Riley, LC Lee, CP Coffey, SH Wang… - Jama, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) can progress to active tuberculosis disease,
causing morbidity and mortality. Objective To review the evidence on benefits and harms of …

CXCL1: A new diagnostic biomarker for human tuberculosis discovered using Diversity Outbred mice

D Koyuncu, MKK Niazi, T Tavolara, C Abeijon… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
More humans have died of tuberculosis (TB) than any other infectious disease and millions
still die each year. Experts advocate for blood-based, serum protein biomarkers to help …

Blood transcriptomic signatures for symptomatic tuberculosis in an African multicohort study

VM Muwanga, SC Mendelsohn… - European …, 2024 - publications.ersnet.org
Background Multiple host blood transcriptional signatures have been developed as non-
sputum triage tests for tuberculosis (TB). We aimed to compare the diagnostic performance …

Evaluation of host serum protein biomarkers of tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa

TC Morris, CJ Hoggart, NN Chegou, M Kidd… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Accurate and affordable point-of-care diagnostics for tuberculosis (TB) are needed. Host
serum protein signatures have been derived for use in primary care settings, however …

Validation of differentially expressed immune biomarkers in latent and active tuberculosis by real-time PCR

P Perumal, MB Abdullatif, HN Garlant… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global threat and diagnosis of active TB ((ATB) both extra-
pulmonary (EPTB), pulmonary (PTB)) and latent TB (LTBI) infection remains challenging …

[HTML][HTML] Host urine immunological biomarkers as potential candidates for the diagnosis of tuberculosis

OA Eribo, MS Leqheka, ST Malherbe, S McAnda… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective To investigate the potential of host urinary biomarkers as diagnostic candidates for
tuberculosis (TB). Methods Adults self-presenting with symptoms requiring further …

[HTML][HTML] Revisiting tuberculosis screening: An insight to complementary diagnosis and prospective molecular approaches for the recognition of the dormant TB …

AH Alvarez - Microbiological Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) is defined as a chronic infection in both human and cattle hosts and many
subclinical cases remain undetected. After the pathogen is inhaled by a host, phagocyted …