The immune response to tuberculosis (TB) differs in adults and newborn babies because of the way immune cells use energy to kill the bacteria, new research from Ireland is reporting.
The discovery will offer hope for improving treatments for what remains a deadly disease, researchers based in
Prof. Joseph Keane’s TB Immunology lab, at the Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, have said.
“We found fundamental differences in how a baby’s immune cells respond to TB compared to those of an adult and hope that this will eventually lead to new ways to target this infection,” said
New research shows how immune response to TB differs in babies
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