Article
Diversity of Human and Macaque Airway Immune Cells at Baseline and during Tuberculosis Infection.
American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology - 1 Dec 2016
Silver Richard F, Myers Amy J, Jarvela Jessica, Flynn JoAnne, Rutledge Tara, Bonfield Tracey, Lin Philana Ling
Abstract excerpt
Immune cells of the distal airways serve as "first responders" of host immunity to the airborne pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Mtb infection of cynomolgus macaques recapitulates the range of human outcomes from clinically silent latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) to active tuberculosis of various degrees of severity. To further advance the application of this model to human studies, we compared...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Animals
- Biomarkers
- Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid
- Humans
- Latent Tuberculosis
- Leukocyte Count
- Leukocytes
- Lung
- Lymphocyte Subsets
