TY  - GEN
AU  - Venketaraman,Vishwanath
AU  - Venketaraman,Vishwanath
TI  - Host-Directed Therapies for Tuberculosis
SN  - books978-3-03943-502-9
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Basel, Switzerland
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
KW  - Research & information: general
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Biology, life sciences
KW  - Mycobacterium tuberculosis
KW  - host-directed therapies
KW  - immune responses
KW  - tuberculosis
KW  - lung cancer
KW  - misdiagnosis
KW  - invasive procedure
KW  - revising
KW  - antiplatelet
KW  - aspirin
KW  - immunomodulation
KW  - survival
KW  - Taiwan
KW  - latent infection
KW  - pulmonary
KW  - rabbit
KW  - iron supplementation
KW  - pathology
KW  - immune response
KW  - gene expression
KW  - Perls’ stain
KW  - autophagy
KW  - M. tb
KW  - BCG vaccination
KW  - immune exhaustion
KW  - glutathione
KW  - cytokines
KW  - granulomas
KW  - type 2 diabetes
KW  - co-morbidities
KW  - co-infections
KW  - inflammation
KW  - redox imbalance
KW  - antioxidants
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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 entire world's population has latent TB. Consequently, there has been a worldwide effort to eradicate and limit the spread of Mtb through the use of antibiotics. However, management of TB is becoming more challenging with the emergence of drug-resistant and multi-drug resistant strains of Mtb. Furthermore, when administered, many of the anti-TB drugs commonly present severe complications and side effects. Novel approaches to enhance the host immune responses to completely eradicate Mtb infection are urgently needed. This Special Issue will therefore cover most recent advances in the area of host-directed therapies for TB
UR  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3102
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69310
ER  -