Open AccessTo Be or Not Be a (Functional) Antibody Against TB
Author(s) -
Arturo Casadevall
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2016.09.041
Subject(s) - biology , mycobacterium tuberculosis , antibody , tuberculosis , immunology , immunity , humoral immunity , antibody response , virology , immune system , medicine , pathology
In this issue of Cell, Lu et al. provide important insights on the efficacy of human antibodies to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and on how functional heterogeneity of the antibody response may explain a century of contradictory evidence for the role of humoral immunity in defense against tuberculosis.
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