Different drugs for bad bugs: antivirulence strategies in the age of antibiotic resistance

SW Dickey, GYC Cheung, M Otto - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2017 - nature.com
The rapid evolution and dissemination of antibiotic resistance among bacterial pathogens
are outpacing the development of new antibiotics, but antivirulence agents provide an …

Pathogenicity and virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

KC Rahlwes, BRS Dias, PC Campos… - Virulence, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the causative agent of tuberculosis, an infectious
disease with one of the highest morbidity and mortality rates worldwide. Leveraging its …

Virulence factors of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

MA Forrellad, LI Klepp, A Gioffré, J Sabio y Garcia… - Virulence, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) consists of closely related species that
cause tuberculosis in both humans and animals. This illness, still today, remains to be one of …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Pathogenesis and Molecular Determinants of Virulence

I Smith - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
Tuberculosis (TB), one of the oldest known human diseases. is still is one of the major
causes of mortality, since two million people die each year from this malady. TB has many …

[HTML][HTML] Vaccines against tuberculosis: where are we and where do we need to go?

THM Ottenhoff, SHE Kaufmann - PLoS pathogens, 2012 - journals.plos.org
In this review we discuss recent progress in the development, testing, and clinical evaluation
of new vaccines against tuberculosis (TB). Over the last 20 years, tremendous progress has …

The dynamic roles of intracellular lipid droplets: from archaea to mammals

DJ Murphy - Protoplasma, 2012 - Springer
During the past decade, there has been a paradigm shift in our understanding of the roles of
intracellular lipid droplets (LDs). New genetic, biochemical and imaging technologies have …

[HTML][HTML] The TLR-4 agonist adjuvant, GLA-SE, improves magnitude and quality of immune responses elicited by the ID93 tuberculosis vaccine: first-in-human trial

RN Coler, TA Day, R Ellis, FM Piazza, AM Beckmann… - npj Vaccines, 2018 - nature.com
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of infectious death worldwide. Development of
improved TB vaccines that boost or replace BCG is a major global health goal. ID93+ GLA …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic analysis of smooth tubercle bacilli provides insights into ancestry and pathoadaptation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

P Supply, M Marceau, S Mangenot, D Roche… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Global spread and limited genetic variation are hallmarks of M. tuberculosis, the agent of
human tuberculosis. In contrast, Mycobacterium canettii and related tubercle bacilli that also …

[HTML][HTML] Passive antibody therapy for infectious diseases

A Casadevall, E Dadachova, L Pirofski - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2004 - nature.com
Antibody-based therapies are currently undergoing a renaissance. After being developed
and then largely abandoned in the twentieth century, many antibody preparations are now in …

[HTML][HTML] Mycobacterium tuberculosis: An Adaptable Pathogen Associated With Multiple Human Diseases

Q Chai, Y Zhang, CH Liu - Frontiers in cellular and infection …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the etiological agent of tuberculosis (TB), is an extremely
successful pathogen that adapts to survive within the host. During the latency phase of …