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ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Facing the Increased Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant

Peter A Bretscher

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Peter A BretscherDepartment of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Heath Sciences Building, 105 Wiggins Road, Saskatoon, SK S5N 5E5, Canada.

Funding

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council RTPIN 2018-14117
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Koch attempted to treat tuberculosis in the late 1800s by administering an antigenic extract derived from the pathogen to patients. He hoped to bolster the patient's protective immunity. The treatment had diverse results. In some, it improved the patient's condition and in others led to a worsening state and even to death. Koch stopped giving his experimental treatment. I consider here three issues pertinent to realizing Koch's vision. Rational immunotherapy requires a knowledge of what constitutes protective immunity; secondly, how on-going immune responses are regulated, so the patient's immunity can be modulated to become optimally protective; thirdly, a simple methodology by which treatment might be realized. I deliberately cast my account in simple terms to transcend barriers due to specialization. The proposed immunotherapeutic treatment, if realizable, would significantly contribute to overcoming problems of treatment posed by antibiotic resistance of the pathogen.

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host-targeted therapiesimmunotherapytuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID35326834
PMCPMC8944510

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