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ArticleInfection and immunity1999

Assessment of immunity to mycobacterial infection with luciferase reporter constructs.

V A Snewin, M P Gares, P O Gaora, Z Hasan, I N Brown, D B Young

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Article in Infection and immunity, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 93 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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93 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

V A SnewinDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Imperial College School of Medicine, St. Mary's Campus, London W2 1PG, United Kingdom. v.snewin@ic.ac.uk
M P Gares
P O Gaora
Z Hasan
I N Brown
D B Young

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protective immunity to mycobacterial infection is incompletely understood but probably involves the coordinated interaction of multiple cell types and cytokines. With the aim of developing assays that might provide a surrogate measure of protective immunity, we have investigated the use of recombinant mycobacteria carrying luciferase reporter enzymes to assess the effectiveness of antimycobacterial immunity in model systems. Measurement of luminescence was shown to provide a rapid and simple alternative to the counting of CFU as a means of monitoring mycobacterial viability. We describe optimization of a luciferase reporter strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and demonstrate its application for the study of mycobacterial interactions with host cells in tissue culture and the rapid assessment of vaccine efficacy in a murine model.

Indexed as

LuciferasesAnimalsBCG VaccineCell LineDisease Models, AnimalFemaleGenes, ReporterMacrophagesMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMycobacterium smegmatisMycobacterium tuberculosisTuberculosisVaccinationBCG VaccineLuciferases

Identifiers

PMID10456904
PMCPMC96782

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