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 …

Functional Signatures of Human CD4 and CD8 T Cell Responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

T Prezzemolo, G Guggino, MP La Manna… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
With 1.4 million deaths and 8.7 million new cases in 2011, tuberculosis (TB) remains a
global health care problem and together with HIV and Malaria represents one of the three …

The Mycobacterium tuberculosis DosR Regulon Assists in Metabolic Homeostasis and Enables Rapid Recovery from Nonrespiring Dormancy

RL Leistikow, RA Morton, IL Bartek… - Journal of …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mycobacterium tuberculosis survives in latently infected individuals, likely in a
nonreplicating or dormancy-like state. The M. tuberculosis DosR regulon is a genetic …

Memory T Cells in Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection Are Directed against Three Antigenic Islands and Largely Contained in a CXCR3+CCR6+ Th1 …

CS Lindestam Arlehamn, A Gerasimova, F Mele… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
An understanding of the immunological footprint of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) CD4
T cell recognition is still incomplete. Here we report that human Th1 cells specific for MTB …

Genome-wide expression profiling identifies type 1 interferon response pathways in active tuberculosis

THM Ottenhoff, RH Dass, N Yang, MM Zhang… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), remains the leading cause
of mortality from a single infectious agent. Each year around 9 million individuals newly …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis: immune evasion, latency and reactivation

A Gupta, A Kaul, AG Tsolaki, U Kishore, S Bhakta - Immunobiology, 2012 - Elsevier
One-third of the global human population harbours Mycobacterium tuberculosis in dormant
form. This dormant or latent infection presents a major challenge for global efforts to …

Redox homeostasis in mycobacteria: the key to tuberculosis control?

A Kumar, A Farhana, L Guidry, V Saini… - Expert reviews in …, 2011 - cambridge.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is a metabolically flexible pathogen that has the
extraordinary ability to sense and adapt to the continuously changing host environment …

Novel vaccination strategies against tuberculosis

P Andersen, SHE Kaufmann - Cold Spring …, 2014 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
The tuberculosis (TB) pandemic continues to rampage despite widespread use of the BCG
(Bacillus Calmette–Guérin) vaccine. Novel vaccination strategies are urgently needed to …

Tuberculosis biomarkers: from diagnosis to protection

D Goletti, E Petruccioli, SA Joosten… - Infectious disease …, 2016 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
New approaches to control tuberculosis (TB) worldwide are needed. In particular, new tools
for diagnosis and new biomarkers are required to evaluate both pathogen and host key …

For better or for worse: the immune response against Mycobacterium tuberculosis balances pathology and protection

A Dorhoi, ST Reece, SHE Kaufmann - Immunological reviews, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Tuberculosis (TB) is a complex disease, and the success of the bacterium as an intracellular
pathogen is the outcome of its close and longstanding coevolution with the mammalian host …