Immunopathogenesis of non-healing American cutaneous leishmaniasis and progressive visceral leishmaniasis

L Soong, CA Henard, PC Melby - Seminars in immunopathology, 2012 - Springer
The outcomes of Leishmania infection are determined by host immune and nutrition status,
parasite species, and co-infection with other pathogens. While subclinical infection and self …

The complex myeloid network of the liver with diverse functional capacity at steady state and in inflammation

C Eckert, N Klein, M Kornek… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, it has been an explosion of information regarding the role of various myeloid
cells in liver pathology. Macrophages and dendritic cell (DC) play crucial roles in multiple …

Transcriptional profiling in experimental visceral leishmaniasis reveals a broad splenic inflammatory environment that conditions macrophages toward a disease …

F Kong, OA Saldarriaga, H Spratt, EY Osorio… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL), caused by the intracellular protozoan Leishmania donovani, is
characterized by relentlessly increasing visceral parasite replication, cachexia, massive …

Lessons from other diseases: granulomatous inflammation in leishmaniasis

PM Kaye, L Beattie - Seminars in immunopathology, 2016 - Springer
The Leishmania granuloma shares some, though not all, properties with that formed
following mycobacterial infection. As a simplified, noncaseating granuloma composed of …

The contribution of immune evasive mechanisms to parasite persistence in visceral leishmaniasis

EO De Freitas, FMS Leoratti… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Leishmania is a genus of protozoan parasites that give rise to a range of diseases called
Leishmaniasis that affects annually an estimated 1.3 million people from 88 countries …

Transcriptional profiling of macrophages reveals distinct parasite stage-driven signatures during early infection by Leishmania donovani

V Chaparro, TE Graber, T Alain, M Jaramillo - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Macrophages undergo swift changes in mRNA abundance upon pathogen invasion. Herein
we describe early remodelling of the macrophage transcriptome during infection by …

Predicting RTS, S vaccine-mediated protection from transcriptomes in a malaria-challenge clinical trial

RA van den Berg, M Coccia, WR Ballou… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The RTS, S candidate malaria vaccine can protect against controlled human malaria
infection (CHMI), but how protection is achieved remains unclear. Here, we have analyzed …

Leishmania–host interactions: what has imaging taught us?

L Beattie, PM Kaye - Cellular microbiology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Leishmania parasites are well adapted to initiate infection, resist the onslaught of innate
immunity and achieve a state of long‐lived persistence. In recent years, the tools available to …

Downregulation of IRF7-mediated type-I interferon response by LmCen–/– parasites is necessary for protective immunity

T Sepahpour, J Alshaweesh, N Azodi, K Singh… - npj Vaccines, 2024 - nature.com
Leishmaniasis is a tropical disease caused by Leishmania parasites and currently has no
licensed vaccines. We developed a dermotropic Leishmania major centrin gene-deleted …

[HTML][HTML] A transcriptomic network identified in uninfected macrophages responding to inflammation controls intracellular pathogen survival

L Beattie, MER Hermida, JWJ Moore, A Maroof… - Cell host & …, 2013 - cell.com
Intracellular pathogens modulate host cell function to promote their survival. However, in
vitro infection studies do not account for the impact of host-derived inflammatory signals …