Childhood tuberculosis is associated with decreased abundance of T cell gene transcripts and impaired T cell function

Cheryl Hemingway; Maurice Berk; Suzanne T Anderson; Victoria J Wright; Shea Hamilton; Hariklia Eleftherohorinou; Myrsini Kaforou; Greg M Goldgof; Katy Hickman; Beate Kampmann; Johan Schoeman; Brian Eley; David Beatty; Sandra Pienaar; Mark P Nicol; Michael J Griffiths; Simon J Waddell; Sandra M Newton; Lachlan J Coin; David A Relman; Giovanni Montana; Michael Levin

Journal article

Childhood tuberculosis is associated with decreased abundance of T cell gene transcripts and impaired T cell function

Cheryl Hemingway, Maurice Berk, Suzanne T Anderson, Victoria J Wright, Shea Hamilton, Hariklia Eleftherohorinou, Myrsini Kaforou, Greg M Goldgof, Katy Hickman, Beate Kampmann, Johan Schoeman, Brian Eley, David Beatty, Sandra Pienaar, Mark P Nicol, Michael J Griffiths, Simon J Waddell, Sandra M Newton, Lachlan J Coin, David A Relman Show all

PLOS ONE | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185973

University of Melbourne Researchers

Lachlan Coin Author Microbiology and Immunology

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Awarded by Burroughs-Wellcome Wellcome Trust

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Funding Acknowledgements

The study was supported by a Burroughs-Wellcome Wellcome Trust program grant to Prof Levin, Prof Relman and Prof Eley (grant no: DPPED PC1291; https://wellcome.ac.uk). Suzanne T. Anderson was funded by a Beit Fellowship (grant no: DPPED PC0844; www.beittrust.org.uk). David A. Relman is supported by the Thomas C. and Joan M. Merigan Endowment at Stanford University, and by the Horn Foundation. Beate Kampmann was funded by a WT grant (077273/Z/05/Z). Shea Hamilton and Victoria J. Wright are supported by an EU action for diseases of poverty grant (Sante-2006-105-061; https://ec.europa.eu).