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ReviewNature reviews. Immunology2005

Immune responses to tuberculosis in developing countries: implications for new vaccines.

Graham A W Rook, Keertan Dheda, Alimuddin Zumla

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Review in Nature reviews. Immunology, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Graham A W RookCentre for Infectious Diseases and International Health, Windeyer Institute for Medical Sciences, University College London, London W1T 4JF, UK. g.rook@ucl.ac.uk
Keertan Dheda
Alimuddin Zumla

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tuberculosis is out of control in developing countries, where it is killing millions of people every year. In these areas, the present vaccine - Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) - is failing. Progressive tuberculosis occurs because the potentially protective T helper 1 (T(H)1)-cell response is converted to an immunopathological response that fails to eliminate the bacteria. Here, we discuss the data indicating that the problem in developing countries is not a lack of adequate T(H)1-cell responses but, instead, an exaggerated tendency to switch to immunopathological responses. We propose that a successful vaccine needs to block this immunopathology, because it is not the quantity of T(H)1-cell activity that matters but, rather, its context.

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Developing CountriesAntibodies, BacterialBCG VaccineDeveloped CountriesHumansInterferon-gammaInterleukin-4Mycobacterium tuberculosisTh1 CellsTuberculosisTuberculosis VaccinesAntibodies, BacterialBCG VaccineInterferon-gammaInterleukin-4Tuberculosis Vaccines

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PMID16056257

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