@article{f67a035ed45f472eb654a790589f76ff,
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.",
keywords = "Chemokines, Lung, Tuberculosis",
author = "Slight, {Samantha R.} and Khader, {Shabaana A.}",
note = "Funding Information: Shabaana Khader received her PhD in Biotechnology from Madurai Kamaraj University, India where she studied host-pathogen interactions during the mycobacterial disease, leprosy. Dr. Khader then carried out her Post-doctoral training at the Trudeau Institute, NY, where she continued studying host immune responses to another mycobacterial disease, tuberculosis. During her stay at the Trudeau Institute, Dr. Khader demonstrated a critical role for the cytokine Interleukin-17 in vaccine-induced immunity to tuberculosis as well as described seminal roles for IL-12 cytokines in tuberculosis. Dr. Khader then joined the University of Pittsburgh in 2007 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics where her lab continues to study the role of cytokines in immunity to intracellular pathogens such as Mycobacteraium tuberculosis and Francisella tularensis. For her accomplishments, Dr. Khader received a Pathway to Independence Award from NIH, Young Investigator Award from the International Cytokine Society and the Pfizer-Showell award from the American Association of Immunologists. Dr. Khader is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Immunology, Academic Ediotr of Plos One, member of the American Association of Immunologists Committee on Women in Science and on the editorial Board of the Journal of Infectious Diseases and Immunity and Infection. ",
year = "2013",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1016/j.cytogfr.2012.10.002",
language = "English",
volume = "24",
pages = "105--113",
journal = "Cytokine and Growth Factor Reviews",
issn = "1359-6101",
number = "2",
}