The adaptive immune system in early life: The shift makes it count

DKJ Pieren, MC Boer, J de Wit - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Respiratory infectious diseases encountered early in life may result in life-threatening
disease in neonates, which is primarily explained by the relatively naive neonatal immune …

BCG vaccination induces cross-protective immunity against pathogenic microorganisms

JA Soto, NMS Gálvez, CA Andrade, MA Ramírez… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is an attenuated Mycobacterium bovis strain used as a
vaccine to prevent Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) infection. Its ability to potentiate the …

Novel potential therapeutic targets of alopecia areata

W Xu, S Wan, B Xie, X Song - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Alopecia areata (AA) is a non-scarring hair loss disorder caused by autoimmunity. The
immune collapse of the hair follicle, where interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) and CD8+ T cells …

CD30 co-stimulation drives differentiation of protective T cells during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

TW Foreman, CE Nelson, MA Sallin… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - rupress.org
Control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection requires generation of T cells that
migrate to granulomas, complex immune structures surrounding sites of bacterial replication …

Expansion of memory Vδ2 T cells following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination revealed by temporal single-cell transcriptomics

S Terzoli, P Marzano, V Cazzetta, R Piazza, I Sandrock… - npj Vaccines, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract γδ T cells provide rapid cellular immunity against pathogens. Here, we conducted
matched single-cell RNA-sequencing and γδ-TCR-sequencing to delineate the molecular …

A century of BCG vaccination: Immune mechanisms, animal models, non-traditional routes and implications for COVID-19

S Singh, NA Saavedra-Avila, S Tiwari… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) has been used as a vaccine against tuberculosis since
1921 and remains the only currently approved vaccine for this infection. The recent …

Research progress on specific and non-specific immune effects of BCG and the possibility of BCG protection against COVID-19

J Du, Y Su, R Wang, E Dong, Y Cao, W Zhao… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the only approved vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) prevention
worldwide. BCG has an excellent protective effect on miliary tuberculosis and tuberculous …

IV BCG Vaccination and Aerosol BCG Revaccination Induce Mycobacteria-Responsive γδ T Cells Associated with Protective Efficacy against M. tb Challenge

AL Morrison, C Sarfas, L Sibley, J Williams, A Mabbutt… - Vaccines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Intravenously (IV) delivered BCG provides superior tuberculosis (TB) protection compared
with the intradermal (ID) route in non-human primates (NHPs). We examined how γδ T cell …

[HTML][HTML] The quest for vaccine-induced immune correlates of protection against tuberculosis

E Nemes, A Fiore-Gartland, C Boggiano… - Vaccine …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Immunization strategies against tuberculosis (TB) that confer better protection than neonatal
vaccination with the 101-year-old Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) are urgently needed to …

Phosphatidylinositolmannoside vaccination induces lipid-specific Th1-responses and partially protects guinea pigs from Mycobacterium tuberculosis challenge

E Eckhardt, J Schinköthe, M Gischke, J Sehl-Ewert… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The concept of donor-unrestricted T cells (DURTs) comprises a heterogeneity of lymphoid
cells that respond to an abundance of unconventional epitopes in a non-MHC-restricted …