Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), is often exacerbated upon coinfection, but the underlying immunological mechanisms remain unclear. Here, to elucidate these mechanisms, we use an Mtb and lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus coinfection model. Viral coinfection significantly ...
Is tuberculosis a bacterial or viral infection? Why can't macrophages kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis? Are monocytes part of cell mediated immunity? Is tuberculosis a communicable disease? Is tuberculosis a non-communicable disease? Is cell mediated immunity adaptive?
One of the aims of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is to reduce the number of cases of tuberculosis (TB) infection by the year 2015. However, 9 million new cases were reported in 2013, with an estimated 480,000 new cases of multi-drug resistant tube...
Human T-lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III)/lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) is a newly discovered lymphotropic retrovirus that is cytopathic for ... H Mitsuya,S Broder - 《Proc Natl Acad Sci Usa》 被引量: 2506发表: 1986年 Complete nucleotide sequences of functional clones of the AI...
Tuberculosis in children with human immunodeficiency virus infection. For a number of reasons--but especially the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic--tuberculosis (TB) is currently increasing in many parts of the wor... C Chintu,P Mwaba - 《International Journal of Tuberculosis & Lung Di...
BACKGROUND: The prevention of active tuberculosis through the treatment of latent tuberculosis infection is a major element of the national strategy for el... CR Horsburgh - 《N Engl J Med》 被引量: 1067发表: 2004年 Risk for developing tuberculosis among anergic patients infected with HIV To ...
Tuberculosis (TB) is infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a type of bacterium. Tuberculosis infection typically occurs after repeated or prolonged
It's a pandemic infection, spread through the air—but it's not COVID. It's tuberculosis (or TB). Yet we're not in lockdown for it. And we're not queuing up for a vaccine. Some people call TB "the forgotten pandemic". But our knowledge of one pandemic is helping us manage the...
Viral DiseasesDiseasesWhile Pneumocystis carinii is the main pulmonary complication of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Europe and North America it has been rarely reported in sub-Saharan Africa possibly because many African AIDS patients die relatively early after infection with human ...
Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI) is defined as “a state of persistent immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis without clinically manifested evidence of active TB disease”. From:Indian Journal of Tuberculosis,2023 About this page Set alert ...