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June 22, 2020, 8:20 p.m.
VapBC22 toxin-antitoxin system from Mycobacterium tuberculosis is required for pathogenesis and modulation of host immune response
Sakshi Agarwal, Arun Sharma, Rania Bouzeyen, Amar Deep, Harsh Sharma, Kiran K. Mangalaparthi, Keshava K. Datta, Saqib Kidwai, Harsha Gowda, Raghavan Varadarajan, Ravi Datta Sharma, Krishan Gopal Thakur and Ramandeep Singh
2020-06-16 // SCIENCE ADVANCES // Research Article
EDITOR'S PICK: Modelling the dynamics of tuberculosis lesions in a virtual lung: Role of the bronchial tree in endogenous reinfection
Martí Català, Jordi Bechini, Montserrat Tenesa, Ricardo Pérez, Mariano Moya, Cristina Vilaplana, Joaquim Valls, Sergio Alonso, Daniel López, Pere-Joan Cardona, Clara Prats
2020-05-20 // PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY // Research Article
Reconsidering Mycobacterium bovis as a proxy for zoonotic tuberculosis: a molecular epidemiological surveillance study
Shannon C Duffy, BSc Sreenidhi Srinivasan, PhD Megan A Schilling, PhD Tod Stuber, BSc Sarah N Danchuk, BSc Prof Joy S Michael, MD Manigandan Venkatesan, MSc Nitish Bansal, PhD Prof Sushila Maan, PhD Naresh Jindal, PhD Deepika Chaudhary, PhD Premanshu Dandapat, PhD Robab Katani, PhD Shubhada Chothe, PhD Maroudam Veerasami, PhD Suelee Robbe-Austerman, PhD Nicholas Juleff, PhD Prof Vivek Kapur, PhD Prof Marcel A Behr, MD
2020-06-16 // THE LANCET MICROBE // Research Article
Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates carry mutational signatures of host immune environments
Qingyun Liu, Jianhao Wei, Yawei Li, Mei Wang, Jun Su, Yonghui Lu, Mariana G. López, Xueqin Qian, Zhaoqin Zhu, Haiying Wang, Mingyun Gan, Qi Jiang, Yun-Xin Fu, Howard E. Takif, Iñaki Comas, Feng Li, Xuemei Lu, Sarah M. Fortune, and Qian Gao
2020-06-16 // SCIENCE ADVANCES // Research Article
Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 may invalidate T-SPOT.TB assay results in rheumatoid arthritis patients: A retrospective case-control observational study
Kunihiko Umekita, Yayoi Hashiba, Kosho Iwao, Chihiro Iwao, Masatoshi Kimura, Yumi Kariya, Kazuyoshi Kubo, Shunichi Miyauchi, Risa Kudou, Yuki Rikitake, Katoko Takajo, Takeshi Kawaguchi, Motohiro Matsuda, Ichiro Takajo, Eisuke Inoue, Toshihiko Hidaka, Akihiko Okayama
2020-05-27 // PLOS ONE // Research Article
Environmental DNA: A promising factor for tuberculosis risk assessment in multi-host settings
Jordi Martínez-Guijosa, Beatriz Romero, José Antonio Infantes-Lorenzo, Elena Díez, Mariana Boadella, Ana Balseiro, Miguel Veiga, David Navarro, Inmaculada Moreno, Javier Ferreres, Mercedes Domínguez, Cesar Fernández, Lucas Domínguez, Christian Gortázar
2020-05-29 // PLOS ONE // Research Article
Evaluation of multi-antigen serological screening for active tuberculosis among people living with HIV
Devan Jaganath, Jayant Rajan, Christina Yoon, Resmi Ravindran, Alfred Andama, Lucy Asege, Sandra Z. Mwebe, Jane Katende, Martha Nakaye, Fred C. Semitala, Imran H. Khan, Adithya Cattamanchi
2020-06-04 // PLOS ONE // Research Article
The yield of community-based tuberculosis and HIV among key populations in hotspot settings of Ethiopia: A cross-sectional implementation study
Z. G. Dememew, D. Jerene, D. G. Datiko, N. Hiruy, A. Tadesse, T. Moile, D. Bekele, G. Yismawu, K. Melkieneh, B. Reshu, P. G. Suarez
2020-05-29 // PLOS ONE // Research Article
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