Journal article
Airway luminal T cells: A newcomer on the stage of TB vaccination strategies
Abstract
Protection against pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) by vaccination is often ascribed to the presence of TB-reactive T cells in the lung before infection. Challenging this view, new studies analyzing vaccine-induced T cells in various tissue compartments after parenteral immunization suggest a poor correlation between the presence of anti-TB T cells in the lung interstitium and spleen before Mycobacterium tuberculosis exposure and protection. In …
Authors
Jeyanathan M; Heriazon A; Xing Z
Journal
Trends in Immunology, Vol. 31, No. 7, pp. 247–252
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
July 2010
DOI
10.1016/j.it.2010.05.002
ISSN
1471-4906