Tobin DM, Roca FJ, Oh SF, McFarland R, Vickery TW, Ray JP, Ko DC, Zou Y, Bang ND, Chau TT, Vary JC, Hawn TR, Dunstan SJ, Farrar JJ, Thwaites GE, King M, Serhan CN, Ramakrishnan L. Host Genotype-Specific Therapies Can Optimize the Inflammatory Response to Mycobacterial Infections. Cell. 2012 Feb 3;...
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19 Sep 2011
Botella H, Peyron P, Levillain F, Poincloux R, Poquet Y, Brandli I, Wang C, Tailleux L, Tilleul S, Charrière GM, Waddell SJ, Foti M, Lugo-Villarino G, Gao Q, Maridonneau-Parini I, Butcher PD, Castagnoli PR, Gicquel B, de Chastellier C, Neyrolles O. Mycobacterial p(1)-type ATPases mediate resistance...
1 Aug 2011
Silva RF, Mendonc SCM, Carvalho LM, Reis AM, Gordo I, Trindade S, Dionisio F. Pervasive Sign Epistasis between Conjugative Plasmids and Drug-Resistance Chromosomal Mutations. PLoS Genetics. 2011 July;7(7):1-10. This week we have an article by researchers from Portugal that suggests that in the case...
18 Jul 2011
BiBianco MV , Blanco FC, Imperiale B, Forrellad MA , Rocha RV, Klepp LI , Cataldi AA , Morcillo N, Bigi F. Role of P27 -P55 operon from Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the resistance to toxic compounds. BMC Infectious Diseases. 2011 Jul 16; 11:195. [Epub ahead of print] This week, we present an...
28 Feb 2011
Elkington PT, D’Armiento JM, Friedland JS. Tuberculosis immunopathology: the neglected role of extracellular matrix destruction. Sci Transl Med. 2011 Feb 23;3(71):71ps6. In today’s article, Elkington, et al., would like to change how researchers view and define immunopathology in tuberculosis. The...
31 Jan 2011
Gupta A, Bhosale R, Kinikar A, Gupte N, Bharadwaj R, Kagal A, Joshi S, Khandekar M, Karmarkar A, Kulkarni V, Sastry J, Mave V, Suryavanshi N, Thakar M, Kulkarni S, Tripathy S, Sambarey P, Patil S, Paranjape R, Bollinger RC, Jamkar A; Six Week Extended-Dose Nevirapine (SWEN) India Study Team...
17 Feb 2010
Can Vitamin-D from sunshine help TB treatment?(photo: Jon Sullivan, courtesy of Public Domain Photos) One of the characteristics making M. tuberculosis such an insidious killer is its uncanny ability to thwart many of our best defenses. Whether through hiding itself in our lungs for years or...