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NATURE REVIEWS IMMUNOLOGY
卷 17, 期 11, 页码 691-702出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nri.2017.69
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- US National Institutes of Health [T32 AI089443, AI094745, HL110811, AI105422, AI123093, AI114674]
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Aeras Global Fund
- Burroughs Wellcome Foundation
Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), results in a range of clinical presentations in humans. Most infections manifest as a clinically asymptomatic, contained state that is termed latent TB infection (LTBI); a smaller subset of infected individuals present with symptomatic, active TB. Within these two seemingly binary states, there is a spectrum of host outcomes that have varying symptoms, microbiologies, immune responses and pathologies. Recently, it has become apparent that there is diversity of infection even within a single individual. A good understanding of the heterogeneity that is intrinsic to TB -at both the population level and the individual level -is crucial to inform the development of intervention strategies that account for and target the unique, complex and independent nature of the local host-pathogen interactions that occur in this infection. In this Review, we draw on model systems and human data to discuss multiple facets of TB biology and their relationship to the overall heterogeneity observed in the human disease.
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