Heterogeneity in tuberculosis pathology, microenvironments and therapeutic responses

A Lenaerts, CE Barry III, V Dartois - Immunological reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Tuberculosis (TB) lesions are extremely complex and dynamic. Here, we review the multiple
types and fates of pulmonary lesions that form following infection by M ycobacterium …

Controlled human infection models to accelerate vaccine development

RKM Choy, AL Bourgeois… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The timelines for developing vaccines against infectious diseases are lengthy, and often
vaccines that reach the stage of large phase 3 field trials fail to provide the desired level of …

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 …

Tuberculosis vaccines and prevention of infection

TR Hawn, TA Day, TJ Scriba, M Hatherill… - Microbiology and …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of death worldwide despite the availability of effective
chemotherapy for over 60 years. Although Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin …

The multistage vaccine H56 boosts the effects of BCG to protect cynomolgus macaques against active tuberculosis and reactivation of latent Mycobacterium …

PL Lin, J Dietrich, E Tan, RM Abalos… - The Journal of …, 2012 - Am Soc Clin Investig
It is estimated that one-third of the world's population is infected with Mycobacterium
tuberculosis. Infection typically remains latent, but it can reactivate to cause clinical disease …

Tuberculosis vaccine development: progress in clinical evaluation

SB Sable, JE Posey, TJ Scriba - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading killer among all infectious diseases worldwide despite
extensive use of the Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine. A safer …

The non‐human primate model of tuberculosis

D Kaushal, S Mehra, PJ Didier… - Journal of medical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐human primates (NHPs) are used to model human disease owing to their remarkably
similar genomes, physiology, and immune systems. Recently, there has been an increased …

Modeling tuberculosis in nonhuman primates

CA Scanga, JAL Flynn - Cold Spring …, 2014 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Nonhuman primates have emerged as an excellent model of human tuberculosis, in large
part because they recapitulate the full spectrum of infection outcome and pathology seen in …

MTBVAC vaccination protects rhesus macaques against aerosol challenge with M. tuberculosis and induces immune signatures analogous to those observed in …

AD White, L Sibley, C Sarfas, A Morrison, J Gullick… - npj Vaccines, 2021 - nature.com
A single intradermal vaccination with MTBVAC given to adult rhesus macaques was well
tolerated and conferred a significant improvement in outcome following aerosol exposure to …

[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 …