Targeting immunometabolism in host defence against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

FJ Sheedy, M Divangahi - Immunology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the face of ineffective vaccines, increasing antibiotic resistance and the decline in new
antibacterial drugs in the pipeline, tuberculosis (TB) still remains pandemic. Exposure to …

A comprehensive approach to developing a multi-epitope vaccine against Mycobacterium tuberculosis: from in silico design to in vitro immunization evaluation

F Jiang, Y Han, Y Liu, Y Xue, P Cheng, L Xiao… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction The Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, currently used against
tuberculosis (TB), exhibits inconsistent efficacy, highlighting the need for more potent TB …

Challenges of developing novel vaccines with particular global health importance

PM Heaton - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Six of the top ten leading causes of death in low resource settings could potentially be
prevented by vaccination. Development of vaccines for individuals in these populations is …

In-host population dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex during active disease

R Vargas, L Freschi, M Marin, LE Epperson, M Smith… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of death globally. Understanding the population
dynamics of TB's causative agent Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (Mtbc) in-host is vital …

[HTML][HTML] Pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis control associates with CXCR3-and CCR6-expressing antigen-specific Th1 and Th17 cell recruitment

U Shanmugasundaram, AN Bucsan, SR Ganatra… - JCI insight, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Mycobacterium tuberculosis–specific (M. tuberculosis–specific) T cell responses associated
with immune control during asymptomatic latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) remain poorly …

The potential impact of novel tuberculosis vaccine introduction on economic growth in low-and middle-income countries: A modeling study

A Portnoy, JL Arcand, RA Clark, CK Weerasuriya… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background Most individuals developing tuberculosis (TB) are working age adults living in
low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). The resulting disability and death impact …

Mucosal delivery of a multistage subunit vaccine promotes development of lung-resident memory T cells and affords interleukin-17-dependent protection against …

C Counoupas, KC Ferrell, A Ashhurst… - npj Vaccines, 2020 - nature.com
The development of effective vaccines against bacterial lung infections requires the
induction of protective, pathogen-specific immune responses without deleterious …

Advances in protein subunit vaccines against tuberculosis

Y Zhang, J Xu, Z Hu, X Fan - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB), also known as the “White Plague”, is caused by Mycobacterium
tuberculosis (Mtb). Before the COVID-19 epidemic, TB had the highest mortality rate of any …

[HTML][HTML] Bacille Calmette Guérin (BCG) and new TB vaccines: Specific, cross-mycobacterial and off-target effects

N Fritschi, N Curtis, N Ritz - Paediatric respiratory reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Bacille Calmette Guérin (BCG) vaccine was developed over a century ago and
has become one of the most used vaccines without undergoing a modern vaccine …

[HTML][HTML] The PE-PPE family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: proteins in disguise

C D'Souza, U Kishore, AG Tsolaki - Immunobiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Mycobacterium tuberculosis has thrived in parallel with humans for millennia, and despite
our efforts, M. tuberculosis continues to plague us, currently infecting a third of the world's …