Host-Directed Therapies for Tuberculosis

• Other Authors: Venketaraman, Vishwanath (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; host-directed therapies; immune responses; tuberculosis; lung cancer; misdiagnosis; invasive procedure; revising; antiplatelet; aspirin; immunomodulation; survival; Taiwan; latent infection; pulmonary; rabbit; iron supplementation; pathology; immune response; gene expression; Perls' stain; autophagy; M. tb; BCG vaccination; immune exhaustion; glutathione; cytokines; granulomas; type 2 diabetes; co-morbidities; co-infections; inflammation; redox imbalance; antioxidants
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TB is considered as one of the oldest documented infectious diseases in the world and is believed to be the leading cause of mortality due to a single infectious agent. Mtb, the causative agent responsible for TB, continues to afflict millions of people worldwide. Furthermore, one-third of the entir...