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Pathogen-specific T cell depletion and reactivation of opportunistic pathogens in HIV infectionChristof Geldmacher
Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Center of University of Munich LMU, Munich, Germany
Trends Immunol 33:207-14. 2012....
Interaction between HIV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis: HIV-1-induced CD4 T-cell depletion and the development of active tuberculosisChristof Geldmacher
Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Center of University of Munich, Germany
Curr Opin HIV AIDS 7:268-75. 2012..Here, we discuss pathogenic mechanisms of HIV-induced CD4 T-cell depletion and their potential impact on immune control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis...
Early depletion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific T helper 1 cell responses after HIV-1 infectionChristof Geldmacher
Immunology Laboratory, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Infect Dis 198:1590-8. 2008..This study was conducted to better understand the mechanism underlying M. tuberculosis-specific pathogenicity early after onset of HIV infection...
Minor viral and host genetic polymorphisms can dramatically impact the biologic outcome of an epitope-specific CD8 T-cell responseChristof Geldmacher
Immunology Laboratory, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Blood 114:1553-62. 2009..Thus, minor viral and host genetic polymorphisms can dramatically alter the immunologic and virologic outcome of an epitope-specific CD8 T-cell response...
Preferential infection and depletion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific CD4 T cells after HIV-1 infectionChristof Geldmacher
Immunology Laboratory, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Exp Med 207:2869-81. 2010....
Viral and host factors associated with the HIV-1 viral load setpoint in adults from Mbeya Region, TanzaniaElmar Saathoff
Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich LMU, Munich, Germany
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 54:324-30. 2010..The viral load setpoint (VLS) is an important predictor of HIV disease progression, but there is a lack of information regarding the VLS and its possible determinants in African populations...
Differential association of programmed death-1 and CD57 with ex vivo survival of CD8+ T cells in HIV infectionConstantinos Petrovas
Immunology Laboratory, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
J Immunol 183:1120-32. 2009..Thus, our data further support the role of PD-1 as a preapoptotic factor for CD8(+) T cells in HIV infection...
Risk factors for HIV-1 infection in a longitudinal, prospective cohort of adults from the Mbeya Region, TanzaniaSteffen Geis
Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Center of the University of Munich, LMU, Munich, Germany
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 56:453-9. 2011..This study describes HIV-1 incidence and associated risk factors in a general population cohort of adults from Mbeya region, Tanzania, who participated in a vaccine preparedness study...
Low specificity of determine HIV1/2 RDT using whole blood in south west TanzaniaInge Kroidl
Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Center of the University of Munich LMU, Munich, Germany
PLoS ONE 7:e39529. 2012..To evaluate the diagnostic performance of two rapid detection tests (RDTs) for HIV 1/2 in plasma and in whole blood samples...
SIV-specific CD8+ T cells express high levels of PD1 and cytokines but have impaired proliferative capacity in acute and chronic SIVmac251 infectionConstantinos Petrovas
Immunology Laboratory, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIH, 40 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Blood 110:928-36. 2007..Manipulation of the interaction of PD-1 with its ligands could thus potentially restore the CD8+ T-cell responses in SIV infection...
CD8 T-cell recognition of multiple epitopes within specific Gag regions is associated with maintenance of a low steady-state viremia in human immunodeficiency virus type 1-seropositive patientsChristof Geldmacher
Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Virol 81:2440-8. 2007..36; P = 0.0016). Particularly, recognition of multiple epitopes within two regions of Gag (amino acids [aa] 1 to 75 and aa 248 to 500) was associated with the maintenance of a low steady-state viremia, even years after acute infection...
