Publications

Research Findings

  1. Blumberg HM, Ernst JD. The Challenge of Latent TB Infection. JAMA. 2016;316(9):931-3
  2. Arlehamn CS, Copin R, Leary S, Mack SJ, Phillips E, Mallal S, Sette A, Blatner G, Siefers H, Ernst JD, Team TB-AS. Sequence-based HLA-A, B, C, DP, DQ, and DR typing of 100 Luo infants from the Boro area of Nyanza Province, Kenya. Human immunology. 2017;78(4):325-6.
  3. Whatney WE, Gandhi NR, Lindestam Arlehamn CS, Nizam A, Wu H, Quezada MJ, Campbell A, Allana S, Kabongo MM, Khayumbi J, Muchiri B, Ongalo J, Tonui J, Sasser LE, Fergus TJ, Ouma GS, Ouma SG, Beck AA, Mulligan MJ, Oladele A, Kaushal D, Cain KP, Waller L, Blumberg HM, Altman JD, Ernst JD, Rengarajan J, Day CL, Group TB-AS. A High Throughput Whole Blood Assay for Analysis of Multiple Antigen-Specific T Cell Responses in Human Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection. Journal of immunology. 2018;200(8):3008-19
  4. Li K, Vorkas CK, Chaudhry A, Bell DL, Willis RA, Rudensky A, Altman JD, Glickman MS, Aube J. Synthesis, stabilization, and characterization of the MR1 ligand precursor 5-amino-6-D-ribitylaminouracil (5-A-RU). PLoS One. 2018;13(2):e0191837.
  5. Ernst JD. Mechanisms of M. tuberculosis Immune Evasion as Challenges to TB Vaccine Design. Cell Host Microbe. 2018;24(1):34-42.

Publications facilitated by TBRU collaborations

  1. Lindestam Arlehamn CS, McKinney DM, Carpenter C, Paul S, Rozot V, Makgotlho E, Gregg Y, van Rooyen M, Ernst JD, Hatherill M, Hanekom WA, Peters B, Scriba TJ, Sette A. A Quantitative Analysis of Complexity of Human Pathogen-Specific CD4 T Cell Responses in Healthy tuberculosis Infected South Africans. PLoS Pathog. 2016;12(7):e1005760.
  2. Young DC, Layre E, Pan SJ, Tapley A, Adamson J, Seshadri C, Wu Z, Buter J,Minnaard AJ, Coscolla M, Gagneux S, Copin R, Ernst JD, Bishai WR, Snider BB, Moody DB. In vivo biosynthesis of terpene nucleosides provides unique chemical markers of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Chem Biol. 2015 Apr 23;22(4):516-526.
  3. Kapwata T, Morris N, Campbell A, Mthiyane T, Mpangase P, Nelson KN, Allana S, Brust JCM, Moodley P, Mlisana K, Gandhi NR, Shah NS. Spatial distribution of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) patients in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. PLoS One. 2017;12(10):e0181797.
  4. Bablishvili N, Tukvadze N, Shashkina E, Mathema B, Gandhi NR, Blumberg HM, Kempker RR. Impact of gyrB and eis Mutations in Improving Detection of Second-Line-Drug Resistance among Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates from Georgia. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2017;61(9) pii: e01921-16. 
  5. Scriba TJ, Carpenter C, Pro SC, Sidney J, Musvosvi M, Rozot V, Seumois G, Rosales SL, Vijayanand P, Goletti D, Makgotlho E, Hanekom W, Hatherill M, Peters B, Sette A, Arlehamn CSL. Differential Recognition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-Specific Epitopes as a Function of Tuberculosis Disease History. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2017;196(6):772-81.
  6. Dhanda SK, Karosiene E, Edwards L, Grifoni A, Paul S, Andreatta M, Weiskopf D, Sidney J, Nielsen M, Peters B, Sette A. Predicting HLA CD4 Immunogenicity in Human Populations. Front Immunol. 2018;9:1369.