Search Results - "Lewinsohn David"
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Incipient and Subclinical Tuberculosis: a Clinical Review of Early Stages and Progression of Infection
Published in Clinical microbiology reviews (01-10-2018)“…Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious cause of mortality worldwide, due in part to a limited understanding of its clinical pathogenic spectrum of…”
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The status of tuberculosis vaccine development
Published in The Lancet infectious diseases (01-03-2020)“…Tuberculosis represents the leading global cause of death from an infectious agent. Controlling the tuberculosis epidemic thus represents an urgent global…”
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Polyfunctional CD4 + T Cells As Targets for Tuberculosis Vaccination
Published in Frontiers in immunology (05-10-2017)“…Tuberculosis (TB), caused by (Mtb), remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, despite the widespread use of the only licensed vaccine,…”
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Official American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Clinical Practice Guidelines: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Adults and Children
Published in Clinical infectious diseases (15-01-2017)“…Background. Individuals infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) may develop symptoms and signs of disease (tuberculosis disease) or may have no clinical…”
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Official American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Clinical Practice Guidelines: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Adults and Children
Published in Clinical infectious diseases (15-01-2017)“…Individuals infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) may develop symptoms and signs of disease (tuberculosis disease) or may have no clinical evidence of…”
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Endosomal MR1 Trafficking Plays a Key Role in Presentation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Ligands to MAIT Cells
Published in PLoS pathogens (31-03-2016)“…Mucosal-Associated Invariant T (MAIT) cells, present in high frequency in airway and other mucosal tissues, have Th1 effector capacity positioning them to play…”
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Human lung epithelial cells contain Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a late endosomal vacuole and are efficiently recognized by CD8⁺ T cells
Published in PloS one (14-05-2014)“…Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is transmitted via inhalation of aerosolized particles. While alveolar macrophages are thought to play a central role in the…”
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Human mucosal associated invariant T cells detect bacterially infected cells
Published in PLoS biology (01-06-2010)“…Control of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) requires Th1-type immunity, of which CD8+ T cells play a unique role. High frequency Mtb-reactive…”
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MR1-restricted mucosal associated invariant T (MAIT) cells in the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Published in Immunological reviews (01-03-2015)“…Summary The intracellular pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and its human host have long co‐evolved. Although the host cellular immune response is…”
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An Expanding Role for Environmental Microbes in Shaping the Immune Response to Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Published in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (15-09-2017)“…Following extensive exploration of alternate mechanistic explanations such as the binding of peptides to HLA-II and the function and phenotype of the…”
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MAIT cells and microbial immunity
Published in Immunology and cell biology (01-07-2018)“…Mucosal‐associated invariant T (MAIT) cells, the most abundant T‐cell subset in humans, are increasingly being recognized for their importance in microbial…”
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Donor Unrestricted T Cells: Linking innate and adaptive immunity
Published in Vaccine (08-12-2021)“…Donor Unrestricted T Cells (DURTs) are characterized by their use of antigen presentation molecules that are often invariant. As these cells recognize diverse…”
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Tuberculosis Infectiousness and Host Susceptibility
Published in The Journal of infectious diseases (03-11-2017)“…The transmission of tuberculosis is complex. Necessary factors include a source case with respiratory disease that has developed sufficiently for Mycobacterium…”
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Co-dependents: MR1-restricted MAIT cells and their antimicrobial function
Published in Nature reviews. Microbiology (01-01-2013)“…Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells have an intrinsic capacity to recognize a broad microbial repertoire through their invariant T cell receptor, which…”
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MR1-dependent antigen presentation
Published in Seminars in cell & developmental biology (01-12-2018)“…MR1 is a non-classical class I molecule that is highly conserved among mammals. Though discovered in 1995, only recently have MR1 ligands and antigens for…”
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T cell recognition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis peptides presented by HLA-E derived from infected human cells
Published in PloS one (27-11-2017)“…HLA-E is a non-conventional MHC Class I molecule that has been recently demonstrated to present pathogen-derived ligands, resulting in the TCR-dependent…”
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Human TRAV1-2-negative MR1-restricted T cells detect S. pyogenes and alternatives to MAIT riboflavin-based antigens
Published in Nature communications (16-08-2016)“…Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells are thought to detect microbial antigens presented by the HLA-Ib molecule MR1 through the exclusive use of a…”
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T cell receptor diversity, specificity and promiscuity of functionally heterogeneous human MR1-restricted T cells
Published in Molecular immunology (01-02-2021)“…•MR1 can present multiple distinct ligands to T cells.•Diverse Human MR1 restricted T cells recognise distinct microbial or self/tumour antigens.•Individual…”
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Ligand-dependent downregulation of MR1 cell surface expression
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (12-05-2020)“…The antigen-presenting molecule MR1 presents riboflavin-based metabolites to Mucosal-Associated Invariant T (MAIT) cells. While MR1 egress to the cell surface…”
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Identification and Evaluation of Novel Protective Antigens for the Development of a Candidate Tuberculosis Subunit Vaccine
Published in Infection and immunity (01-07-2018)“…The development of a vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), a disease caused by , is urgently needed. The only currently available vaccine, BCG, has variable…”
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