Comparable Growth of Virulent and Avirulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Human Macrophages In Vitro

Killing of virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis by reactive nitrogen intermediates produced by activated murine macrophages.

1992 • 1,040 citations

THE PATHOGENESIS OF TUBERCULOSIS

1952 • 672 citations

Apoptosis, but not necrosis, of infected monocytes is coupled with killing of intracellular bacillus Calmette-Guérin.

1994 • 512 citations

Nitric Oxide Synthase Is Not a Constituent of the Antimicrobial Armature of Human Mononuclear Phagocytes

1993 • 334 citations

Cytotoxicity for lung epithelial cells is a virulence-associated phenotype of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

1995 • 178 citations

Virulence and Resistance to Superoxide, Low pH and Hydrogen Peroxide among Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

1978 • 165 citations

Virulence ranking of some Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis strains according to their ability to multiply in the lungs, induce lung pathology, and cause mortality in mice

1995 • 163 citations

Mycobacterial virulence. Virulent strains of Mycobacteria tuberculosis have faster in vivo doubling times and are better equipped to resist growth-inhibiting functions of macrophages in the presence and absence of specific immunity.

1993 • 140 citations

Effector mechanisms involved in cytokine-mediated bacteriostasis of Mycobacterium avium infections in murine macrophages.

1993 • 101 citations

History of H37 strain of tubercle bacillus.

1946 • 78 citations

Differential release of tumor necrosis factor-α from murine peritoneal macrophages stimulated with virulent and avirulent species of mycobacteria

1994 • 58 citations

Oxidative and non-oxidative intracellular killing of Mycobacterium avium complex

1989 • 51 citations

The growth of intracellular tubercle bacilli in relation to their virulence.

1954 • 49 citations

The fate of virulent and attenuated Mycobacteria in guinea pigs infected by the respiratory route.

1973 • 37 citations

Natural mycobacteriostatic activity in human monocyte-derived adherent cells.

1986 • 36 citations

INFECTION OF MICE WITH MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS, STRAIN H37RA.

1964 • 21 citations

The fate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis within macrophages of guinea pigs.

1971 • 10 citations

Bacteriostatic Activity of BCG/PPD‐Activated Macrophages Against Mycobacterium fortuitum Does Not Involve Reactive Nitrogen or Oxygen Intermediates

1994 • 9 citations