Antiretroviral Agents Restore Mycobacterium-Specific T-Cell Immune Responses and Facilitate Controlling a Fatal Tuberculosis-Like Disease in Macaques Coinfected with Simian Immunodeficiency Virus and Mycobacterium bovis BCG
AUTOR(ES)
Shen, Yun
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
The contribution of immune reconstitution following antiretroviral treatment to the prevention or treatment of human immunodeficiency virus-related primary or reactivation tuberculosis remains unknown. Macaque models of simian immunodeficiency virus-Mycobacterium bovis BCG (SIV/BCG) coinfection were employed to determine the extent to which anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis immunity can be restored by antiretroviral therapy. Both SIV-infected macaques with active BCG reinfection and naive animals with simultaneous SIV/BCG coinfection were evaluated. The suppression of SIV replication by antiretroviral treatment resulted in control of the active BCG infection and blocked development of the fatal SIV-related tuberculosis-like disease. The resolution of this disease coincided with the restoration of BCG purified protein derivative (PPD)-specific T-cell immune responses. In contrast, macaques similarly coinfected with SIV/BCG but not receiving antiretroviral therapy had depressed PPD-specific primary and memory T-cell immune responses and died from tuberculosis-like disease. These results provide in vivo evidence that the restoration of anti-mycobacterial immunity by antiretroviral agents can improve the clinical outcome of an AIDS virus-related tuberculosis-like disease.
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