Nonprotein Structures from Mycobacteria: Emerging Actors for Tuberculosis Control by Luz M. Lopez-Marin

“…For many decades, consistent to classical biochemistry, most studies regarding immunity to the tubercle bacilli focused mainly on protein structures. …”
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Optimizing Poisson-Lindley Parameter Estimation: LQM and Reliability Analysis Applied to Guinea Pig Survival Data by Sameera Othman

“…Moreover, variance estimates for the known parameters and the related Kolmogorov–Smirnov (K–S) statistics, along with their corresponding p-values for the Poisson-Lindley Distribution (PLD), are analyzed using actual data on guinea pig survival times under various tubercle bacilli dosages. An observation indicating a strong fit with the optimal estimator with (LQM=4.190217) and the lowest MSE (78.71956) is made in light of the small K–S distance and the significant p-value for the test. …”
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Binding of CXCL8/IL-8 to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Modulates the Innate Immune Response by Agnieszka Krupa, Marek Fol, Bozena R. Dziadek, Ewa Kepka, Dominika Wojciechowska, Anna Brzostek, Agnieszka Torzewska, Jaroslaw Dziadek, Robert P. Baughman, David Griffith, Anna K. Kurdowska

“…We have shown for the first time that IL-8 can directly bind to tubercle bacilli. We have also demonstrated that association of IL-8 with M. tb molecules leads to the augmentation of the ability of leukocytes (neutrophils and macrophages) to phagocyte and kill these bacilli. …”
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