Early clearance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a new frontier in prevention

AJ Verrall, M G. Netea, B Alisjahbana, PC Hill… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Early clearance (EC) is the successful eradication of inhaled M ycobacterium tuberculosis
before an adaptive immune response develops. Evidence for EC comes from case contact …

[HTML][HTML] Tuberculosis and HIV co-infection in children

E Venturini, A Turkova, E Chiappini, L Galli… - BMC infectious …, 2014 - Springer
HIV is the top and tuberculosis is the second leading cause of death from infectious disease
worldwide, with an estimated 8.7 million incident cases of tuberculosis and 2.5 million new …

[HTML][HTML] A functional role for antibodies in tuberculosis

LL Lu, AW Chung, TR Rosebrock, M Ghebremichael… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
While a third of the world carries the burden of tuberculosis, disease control has been
hindered by a lack of tools, including a rapid, point-of-care diagnostic and a protective …

Inflammasomes as mediators of inflammation in HIV-1 infection

AK Min, T Fortune, N Rodriguez, E Hedge… - Translational …, 2023 - Elsevier
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection is a chronic disease without a known
cure. The advent of effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) has enabled people with HIV …

Role of inflammasomes in HIV-1 infection and treatment

X Jin, R Zhou, Y Huang - Trends in Molecular Medicine, 2022 - cell.com
Although combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) is effective in inhibiting human
immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replication, it does not eradicate the virus because …

[HTML][HTML] Inflammasome genetic variants are associated with tuberculosis, HIV-1 infection, and TB/HIV-immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome outcomes

NBR de Sá, NCS de Souza, M Neira-Goulart… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Tuberculosis (TB) and AIDS are the leading causes of infectious diseases
death worldwide. Here, we investigated the relationship between from single nucleotide …

Role of inflammasome genetics in susceptibility to HPV infection and cervical cancer development

A Pontillo, P Bricher, VNC Leal, S Lima… - Journal of medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Problem: Only a small proportion of HPV+ women develop virus‐associated lesions and
cervical cancer, suggesting that other factors are involved in HPV+ keratinocyte …

Inflammasome genetics and complex diseases: a comprehensive review

FP Fernandes, VNC Leal, D Souza de Lima… - European Journal of …, 2020 - nature.com
The inflammasome is a cytoplasmic multiprotein complex responsible for the activation of
inflammatory caspases (caspase-1,-4, and-5) in response to pathogen-and/or damage …

[HTML][HTML] HIV-1 envelope overcomes NLRP3-mediated inhibition of F-actin polymerization for viral entry

A Paoletti, A Allouch, M Caillet, H Saïdi, F Subra… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Purinergic receptors and nucleotide-binding domain leucine-rich repeat containing (NLR)
proteins have been shown to control viral infection. Here, we show that the NLR family …

[HTML][HTML] HIV-1 activates oxidative phosphorylation in infected CD4 T cells in a human tonsil explant model

TL Freeman, C Zhao, N Schrode, T Fortune… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) causes a chronic, incurable
infection leading to immune activation and chronic inflammation in people with HIV-1 (PWH) …