title: Chemokines shape the immune responses to tuberculosis.
abstract: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the intracellular pathogen that causes the disease, tuberculosis. Chemokines and chemokine receptors are key regulators in immune cell recruitment to sites of infection and inflammation. This review highlights our recent advances in understanding the role of chemokines and chemokine receptors in cellular recruitment of immune cells to the lung, role in granuloma formation and host defense against Mtb infection.
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, USA.
authors.forename: Samantha R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Slight
authors.forename: Shabaana A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Khader
mesh_terms: D056704:Adaptive Immunity; D000818:Animals; D018925:Chemokines / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007113:Immunity, Innate; D008168:Lung / Q000276:immunology; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D018925:Chemokines