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Departament de Genètica i de Microbiologia, Facultat de Biociències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain; Servei d'Al·lèrgia, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, 08907, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain; Unitat de Tuberculosi Experimental, Fundació Institut per a la Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, 08916, Badalona, Catalonia, Spain
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Whole heat-killed Mycobacterium vaccae is used as immunotherapeutic agent in tuberculosis (TB), but the compound/s which trigger/s its immunostimulatory ability are not known. Herein, we showed that among different sub-cellular fractions, the cell-wall-skeleton induced a prominent expression of IFN-
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Mice with pulmonary tuberculosis treated with Mycobacterium vaccae develop strikingly enhanced recall IFN-
responses to M. vaccae cell-wall skeleton
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in splenocytes from both non-TB- and TB-M. vaccae-treated mice.
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