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ReviewAdvances in experimental medicine and biology2013

Antigen-specific CD8(+) T cells and protective immunity to tuberculosis.

Samuel M Behar

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Review in Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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56citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

56 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 97 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Do HLA class II genes protect against pulmonary tuberculosis? A systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Samuel M BeharDivision of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. sbehar@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
Brigham and Women's Hospital · US

Funding

Regulation of CD8+ T cell immunity to tuberculosis (pending title)R01AI106725 · NIAID · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI BEHAR, SAMUEL M · 2013 to 2022
$6.1M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI106725
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The continuing HIV/AIDS epidemic and the spread of multi-drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis has led to the perpetuation of the worldwide tuberculosis epidemic. While M. bovis BCG is widely used as a vaccine, it lacks efficacy in preventing pulmonary tuberculosis in adults [1]. To combat this ongoing scourge, vaccine development for tuberculosis is a global priority. Most infected individuals develop long-lived protective immunity, which controls and contains M. tuberculosis in a T cell-dependent manner. An effective T cells response determines whether the infection resolves or develops into clinically evident disease. Consequently, there is great interest in determining which T cells subsets mediate anti-mycobacterial immunity, delineating their effector functions, and evaluating whether vaccination can elicit these T cells subsets and induce protective immunity. CD4(+) T cells are critical for resistance to M. tuberculosis in both humans and rodent models. CD4(+) T cells are required to control the initial infection as well as to prevent recrudescence in both humans and mice [2]. While it is generally accepted that class II MHC-restricted CD4(+) T cells are essential for immunity to tuberculosis, M. tuberculosis infection elicits CD8(+) T cells responses in both people and in experimental animals. CD8(+) T cells are also recruited to the lung during M. tuberculosis infection and are found in the granulomas of infected people. Thus, how CD8(+) T cells contribute to overall immunity to tuberculosis and whether antigens recognized by CD8(+) T cells would enhance the efficacy of vaccine strategies continue to be important questions.

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AnimalsAntigens, BacterialBacterial ProteinsCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCross-PrimingDendritic CellsEndosomesEpitopes, T-LymphocyteHumansImmunity, CellularImmunodominant EpitopesMacrophagesMiceMice, Mutant StrainsMycobacterium tuberculosisAntigens, BacterialBacterial ProteinsCFP-10 protein, Mycobacterium tuberculosisEpitopes, T-LymphocyteESAT-6 protein, Mycobacterium tuberculosisImmunodominant EpitopesTuberculosis Vaccines

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PMID23468108
PMCPMC5784412
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