Despite effective antibiotics, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis, still infects nearly one-third of the world's population. While key immune factors including CD4+ T cells and IFNg production have been identified, there are still many antimicrobial mechanisms yet to be explored. Here we characterized the role of invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells and GM-CSF during Mtb infection.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:harvard.edu/oai:dash.harvard.edu:1/12271798 |
| Date | 04 June 2016 |
| Creators | Rothchild, Alissa Chen |
| Contributors | Behar, Samuel Maurice |
| Publisher | Harvard University |
| Source Sets | Harvard University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Rights | open |
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