A marmoset model for Mycobacterium avium complex pulmonary disease.

Jay I PetersDiego Jose MaselliMandeep MangatJacqueline J CoalsonCecilia HinojosaLuis GiavedoniBarbara A Brown-ElliottEdward ChanDavid Griffith

Published in: PloS one (2023)

Endobronchial instillation of M. intracellulare resulted in pulmonary mycobacterial infection in marmosets with a differential immune response, radiographic and histopathologic abnormalities, and an indolent course consistent with M. avium complex lung infection in humans.

Keyphrases

immune response
pulmonary hypertension
mycobacterium tuberculosis
ultrasound guided
dendritic cells
toll like receptor