Journal
IMMUNOLOGICAL REVIEWS
Volume 264, Issue 1, Pages 60-73Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/imr.12258
Keywords
tuberculosis; immunology; non-human primate; macaque; granuloma; lymph node
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- NIH [AI50732, HL106804, EB012579, AI094745, HL110811, AI105422, AI063101]
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Aeras Foundation
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Non-human primates, primarily macaques, have been used to study tuberculosis for decades. However, in the last 15years, this model has been refined substantially to allow careful investigations of the immune response and host-pathogen interactions in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Low-dose challenge with fully virulent strains in cynomolgus macaques result in the full clinical spectrum seen in humans, including latent and active infection. Reagents from humans are usually cross-reactive with macaques, further facilitating the use of this model system to study tuberculosis. Finally, macaques develop the spectrum of granuloma types seen in humans, providing a unique opportunity to investigate bacterial and host factors at the local (lung and lymph node) level. Here, we review the past decade of immunology and pathology studies in macaque models of tuberculosis.
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