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Tuberculosis
Volume 89, Supplement 1 (December 2009)
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Proceedings from the Texas Tuberculosis Research Symposium 2009: Emerging directions in TB research and clinical affairs
Edited by Jeffrey K. Actor
This work was equally funded by the University of Texas Health Sciences Center-Houston and The Methodist Hospital Research Institute who generously sponsored the Texas Tuberculosis Research Symposium, held in Houston, TX on February 7th, 2009

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Editorial Board
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Editorial


A summary of the Texas Tuberculosis Research Symposium 2009: Emerging directions in TB research and clinical affairs
Jeffrey K. Actor
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Commentary


Tuberculosis in Texas 2008
Charles Wallace, Lisa Armitige
pages S3-S4
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Papers


Progress in understanding the human immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Peter F. Barnes, Buka Samten, Homayoun Shams, Ramakrishna Vankayalapatib
pages S5-S9
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Pulmonary surfactant and tuberculosis
Zissis C. Chroneos, Krishna Midde, Zvjezdana Sever-Chroneos, Chinnaswamy Jagannath
pages S10-S14
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Application of optical imaging to study of extrapulmonary spread by tuberculosis
Ying Kong, Selvakumar Subbian, Suat L.G. Cirillo, Jeffrey D. Cirillo
pages S15-S17
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TB Research at UT-Houston – A review of cord factor: new approaches to drugs, vaccines and the pathogenesis of tuberculosis
Robert L. Hunter, Lisa Armitige, Chinnaswamy Jagannath, Jeffrey K. Actor
pages S18-S25
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Methionine sulfoxide reductase B (MsrB) of Mycobacterium smegmatis plays a limited role in resisting oxidative stress
Subramanian Dhandayuthapani, Chinnaswamy Jagannath, Celina Nino, Sankaralingam Saikolappan, Smitha J. Sasindran
pages S26-S32
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Efficacy of Artemisia afra phytotherapy in experimental tuberculosis
Siyabulela Ntutela, Pete Smith, Lungile Matika, James Mukinda, Hiram Arendse, Nasiema Allie, D. Mark Estes, Wilfred Mabusela, Peter Folb, Lafras Steyn, Quinton Johnson, William R. Folk, James Syce, Muazzam Jacobs
pages S33-S40
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Latent tuberculosis infections in hard-to-reach drug using population – detection, prevention and control
Lu-Yu Hwang, Carolyn Z. Grimes, R. Palmer Beasley, Edward A. Graviss
pages S41-S45
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Anti-tuberculosis immunity induced in mice by vaccination with Mycobacterium smegmatis over-expressing Antigen 85B is due to the increased influx of IFNγ-positive CD4 T cells into the lungs
Devin R. Lindsey, Subramanian Dhandayuthapani, Chinnaswamy Jagannath
pages S46-S48
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Lactoferrin enhances efficacy of the BCG vaccine: comparison between two inbred mice strains (C57BL/6 and BALB/c)
Shen-An Hwang, Ranjana Arora, Marian L. Kruzel, Jeffrey K. Actor
pages S49-S54
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Targeting the role of N-terminal methionine processing enzymes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Omonike A. Olaleye, William R. Bishai, Jun O. Liu
pages S55-S59
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis ftsZ expression and minimal promoter activity
Manjot Kiran, Erin Maloney, Hava Lofton, Ashwini Chauhan, Rasmus Jensen, Renata Dziedzic, Murty Madiraju, Malini Rajagopalan
pages S60-S64
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Overproduction and localization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ParA and ParB proteins
Erin Maloney, Murty Madiraju, Malini Rajagopalan
pages S65-S69
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis ftsH expression in response to stress and viability
Manjot Kiran, Ashwini Chauhan, Renata Dziedzic, Erin Maloney, Samir Kumar Mukherji, Murty Madiraju, Malini Rajagopalan
pages S70-S73
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis ESX-1 system-secreted protein ESAT-6 but not CFP10 inhibits human T-cell immune responses
Buka Samten, Xisheng Wang, Peter F. Barnes
pages S74-S76
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Innate and adaptive immune responses to human Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
Ramakrishna Vankayalapati, Peter F. Barnes
pages S77-S80
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