The host immune response to tuberculosis

NW Schluger, WN Rom - American journal of respiratory and critical …, 1998 - atsjournals.org
… that host immunity plays an important role in the host-pathogen interaction occurring in
persons exposed to M. tuberculosis. Understanding the components of this host response at a …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic host-directed strategies to improve outcome in tuberculosis

C Young, G Walzl, N Du Plessis - Mucosal immunology, 2020 - Elsevier
tuberculosis (Mtb) strains and a rise in the reservoir of latent infection. Host immune status
… and prompts the host to elicit an immune response that favours its persistence. Adjunctive …

Host-directed therapy as a novel treatment strategy to overcome tuberculosis: targeting immune modulation

S Ahmed, R Raqib, GH Guðmundsson, P Bergman… - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
… As a strategy to escape host immunity, intracellular Mtb selectively modulates autophagy to
host immune cells [84,85], it is relevant to develop host-directed therapy against tuberculosis, …

A computational tool integrating host immunity with antibiotic dynamics to study tuberculosis treatment

E Pienaar, NA Cilfone, PL Lin, V Dartois… - Journal of theoretical …, 2015 - Elsevier
… Here we present the first computational platform for the study of antibiotic treatment of TB
that integrates host immunity, PK (in plasma and lung tissue) and PD with spatial resolution. …

The immune response in tuberculosis

A O'Garra, PS Redford, FW McNab… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Host immune factors controlling M. tuberculosis infection are discussed in more detail later
in this review; we emphasize here the similarities in host-protective factors in both mouse …

Host-directed therapeutic strategies for tuberculosis

A Kolloli, S Subbian - Frontiers in medicine, 2017 - frontiersin.org
… Individuals with LTBI have 5–10% lifetime risk of developing active TB and host immune
host innate and adaptive immune response in the control of Mtb infection (6). The host immunity

Immunity to tuberculosis

RJ North, YJ Jung - Annu. Rev. Immunol., 2004 - annualreviews.org
… We argue that the immunology of mouse tuberculosis is similar in important ways to that in
… mouse tuberculosis and tuberculosis in the guinea pig and rabbit are models of tuberculosis

The human immune response to tuberculosis and its treatment: a view from the blood

JM Cliff, SHE Kaufmann, H McShane… - Immunological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… are not sufficient to predict tuberculosis treatment outcome and do not measure … Host-derived
biomarkers that predict tuberculosis treatment outcome could greatly enhance tuberculosis

Modeling the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Granuloma – the Critical Battlefield in Host Immunity and Disease

E Guirado, LS Schlesinger - Frontiers in immunology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
… .tb while concentrating the immune response to a limited area. … for dictating both the host
immune and bacterial response. … and play a crucial role in immunity and disease. Here we …

Advancing host-directed therapy for tuberculosis

RS Wallis, R Hafner - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2015 - nature.com
… with regards to whether they measured microbial or host characteristics. However, by directly
modulating the host immune response, tuberculosis HDT agents can alter the relationship …