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All-cause and cause-specific mortality during and following incarceration in Brazil: A retrospective cohort study
Liu YE, Lemos EF, Gonçalves CCM, de Oliveira RD, da Silva Santos A, do Prado Morais AO, Croda MG, de Lourdes Delgado Alves M, Croda J, Walter KS, Andrews JR. All-cause and cause-specific mortality during and following incarceration in Brazil: A retrospective cohort study. PLOS Medicine 2021, 18: e1003789. PMID: 34534214, PMCID: PMC8486113, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003789.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsIncidence rate ratiosCause-specific mortalityCause of deathViolent deathEarly violent deathMortality rateCommunicable diseasesRecent incarcerationCause mortalityYouth detentionPrison administrationNon-incarcerated populationsPolice stationsPrison populationStandardized incidence rate ratiosIncarcerated womenRetrospective cohort studyIncarcerated menRisk of deathIncarcerationViolenceCause-specific mortality ratesInsufficient dataBrazilian statesCohort study
2024
Specific CD4+ T cell phenotypes associate with bacterial control in people who ‘resist’ infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Sun M, Phan J, Kieswetter N, Huang H, Yu K, Smith M, Liu Y, Wang C, Gupta S, Obermoser G, Maecker H, Krishnan A, Suresh S, Gupta N, Rieck M, Acs P, Ghanizada M, Chiou S, Khatri P, Boom W, Hawn T, Stein C, Mayanja-Kizza H, Davis M, Seshadri C. Specific CD4+ T cell phenotypes associate with bacterial control in people who ‘resist’ infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nature Immunology 2024, 25: 1411-1421. PMID: 38997431, PMCID: PMC11291275, DOI: 10.1038/s41590-024-01897-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMtb-specific T cellsT cellsPriming of adaptive immune responsesMtb infectionCD4+ T cellsProgression to active tuberculosisIndividuals exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosisT-cell biomarkersMtb-specific antigensLatent MTB infectionAdaptive immune responsesBacterial controlAssociated with lackActive tuberculosisClinical phenotypeMtb exposureImmune responseClinical testingSouth African adolescentsTh17Mycobacterium tuberculosisInfectionNegative resultsNonhuman primatesImmune priming