Tuberculosis

"Tuberculosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Any of the infectious diseases of man and other animals caused by species of MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS.

Descriptor ID	D014376
MeSH Number(s)	C01.252.410.040.552.846
Concept/Terms	Tuberculosis Tuberculosis Tuberculoses Koch's Disease Koch Disease Kochs Disease Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection Infection, Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infections, Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infections

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Tuberculosis".

Diseases [C]
Bacterial Infections and Mycoses [C01]
Bacterial Infections [C01.252]
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections [C01.252.410]
Actinomycetales Infections [C01.252.410.040]
Mycobacterium Infections [C01.252.410.040.552]
Tuberculosis [C01.252.410.040.552.846]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Tuberculosis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Tuberculosis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 225 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 19 publications in 2022

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	2	1	3
1997	2	0	2
1998	1	0	1
1999	2	0	2
2000	2	0	2
2001	0	1	1
2002	3	0	3
2003	4	0	4
2004	2	1	3
2005	3	0	3
2006	1	2	3
2007	6	1	7
2008	7	2	9
2009	5	0	5
2010	3	1	4
2011	4	1	5
2012	6	0	6
2013	7	4	11
2014	8	0	8
2015	9	3	12
2016	11	2	13
2017	11	1	12
2018	7	0	7
2019	9	1	10
2020	11	5	16
2021	10	0	10
2022	19	0	19
2023	14	0	14
2024	11	2	13
2025	15	1	16
2026	1	0	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Tuberculosis" by people in Profiles.

Sharma P, Sharma RD, Sarkar B, Panwar V, Das M, Singh LV, Jain N, Chaturvedi S, Mehra L, Rathee A, Sharma S, Foo S, Lee A, N PK, Das P, Viswanathan V, Kornfeld H, Howland SW, Babu S, Nandicoori VK, Singhal A, Kumar D. Ly6G+ granulocytes-derived IL-17 limits protective host responses and promotes tuberculosis pathogenesis. Elife. 2026 Feb 05; 13.

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Mortensen R, Arlehamn CSL, Coler RN, Gerner MY, Goletti D, Lewinsohn DA, Modlin RL, Musvosvi M, Rengarajan J, Urdahl KB, Walzl G, Behar SM, Barber DL. T cell-macrophage interactions in tuberculosis: What we've got here is failure to communicate. J Intern Med. 2026 Jan; 299(1):44-65.

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Bridges K, Awany D, Gela A, Mwambene TD, Kurtz SL, Baker RE, Elkins KL, Sassetti CM, Scriba TJ, Lauffenburger DA. Cross-species blood transcriptional correlates of BCG-mediated protection against tuberculosis include innate and adaptive immune processes. JCI Insight. 2025 Dec 22; 10(24).

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Dasan B, Munisankar S, Kumar NP, Moideen K, Pandiarajan AN, Nott S, Viswanathan V, Shanmugam S, Hissar S, Thiruvengadam K, Kornfeld H, Babu S. Impact of cytomegalovirus exposure on disease severity, bacterial burden, immune responses and treatment outcomes in tuberculosis. Front Immunol. 2025; 16:1612709.

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Shinkawa T, Chang E, Rakib T, Cavallo K, Lai R, Behar SM. CD226 identifies effector CD8+ T cells during tuberculosis and costimulates recognition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected macrophages. Cell Rep. 2025 Sep 23; 44(9):116184.

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Chung C, Lee KN, Han K, Park J, Shin DW, Lee SW. Physical activity intensity and amount are inversely correlated with the risk of tuberculosis in patients with diabetes. Sci Rep. 2025 Jul 09; 15(1):24701.

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Lefran?ais E, Hudrisier D, Neyrolles O, Behar SM, Ernst JD. Finding and filling the knowledge gaps in mechanisms of T cell-mediated TB immunity to inform vaccine design. Nat Rev Immunol. 2025 Nov; 25(11):798-815.

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Grace PS, Peters JM, Sixsmith J, Lu R, Irvine EB, Luedeman C, Fenderson BA, Vickers A, Slein MD, McKitrick T, Wei MH, Cummings RD, Wallace A, Cavacini LA, Choudhary A, Proulx MK, Sundling C, K?llenius G, Reljic R, Ernst JD, Casadevall A, Locht C, Pinter A, Sassetti CM, Bryson BD, Fortune SM, Alter G. Antibody-Fab and -Fc features promote Mycobacterium tuberculosis restriction. Immunity. 2025 Jun 10; 58(6):1586-1597.e5.

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Anterasian C, Gela A, Mwambene TD, Shah JA, Ivie J, Dill-McFarland KA, Hanekom WA, Kiritsy MC, Sassetti CM, Musvosvi M, Hatherill M, Scriba TJ, Hawn TR. BCG induced innate immune response heterogeneity and susceptibility to pediatric tuberculosis. J Immunol. 2025 May 01; 214(5):936-946.

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Thong PM, Wong YH, Kornfeld H, Goletti D, Ong CWM. Immune dysregulation of diabetes in tuberculosis. Semin Immunol. 2025 06; 78:101959.

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