Wheeling and Dealing With Antigen Presentation in Tuberculosis

• Autores: Denis Hudrisier, Olivier Neyrolles
• Localización: Trends in microbiology, ISSN 0966-842X, Vol. 24, Nº. 3, 2016, págs. 166-168
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In tuberculosis, antigens are transferred from infected to uninfected dendritic cells. Does this favor T lymphocyte response and anti-mycobacterial host defense? In a recent report published in Cell Host & Microbe, Ernst and colleagues show that Mycobacterium tuberculosis seems to have hijacked this mechanism for its own benefit.