Emerging pharmacological strategies that target major virulence factors of antibiotic-
resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) are presented and discussed. This review is …

Tuberculosis (TB) continues being one of the diseases having the greatest mortality rates
around the world, 8.7 million cases having been reported in 2011. An efficient vaccine …

The FluoroSpot assay, a variant of ELISpot utilizing fluorescent detection, has so far been
used primarily for assessment of T cells, where simultaneous detection of several cytokines …

This work was aimed at studying the Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv Rv3494c protein,
taking into account that it belongs to the mammalian cell entry family (mce) which is thought …

Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) is the etiologic agent of
paratuberculosis disease affecting ruminants worldwide. The aim of this study was to identify …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is considered one of the most successful pathogens in the
history of mankind, having caused 1.7 million deaths in 2016. The amount of resistant and …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the causative agent of tuberculosis, a disease causing major
mortality worldwide. As part of a systematic methodology for studying M. tuberculosis surface …

Studying proteins from the M. tuberculosis H37Rv envelop is important for understanding
host‐pathogen interaction regarding bacterial infection and survival within a host; such …

This study was aimed at characterising the PPE7 protein from the PE/PPE protein family.
The presence and transcription of the rv0354c gene in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis …

The humoral immunity regarding tuberculosis can contribute towards controlling the
mycobacteria and the disease. Antigens mediating such type of immunity should thus be …