Pfeffer, PE;
Hopkins, S;
Cropley, I;
Lowe, DM;
Lipman, MCI;
(2017)
An association between pulmonary Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex infections and biomarkers of Th2-type inflammation.
Respiratory Research
, 18
(93)
10.1186/s12931-017-0579-9.
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Abstract
Background: The rising incidence of pulmonary Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex (MAI) infection is unexplained but parallels the growing world-wide epidemic of allergic disease. We hypothesized an association between pulmonary MAI infection and Th2-type immune responses as seen in allergy. / Methods: Biomarkers of patient Th2-type immune responses (peripheral blood eosinophil counts and serum IgE levels) were compared between patients with positive pulmonary samples for tuberculosis and non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infection. A further comparison of clinical characteristics, including respiratory co-morbidities, and biomarkers, was conducted between patients culturing MAI NTM and those culturing NTM other than MAI. / Results: Patients culturing NTM from pulmonary samples had significantly higher peripheral blood eosinophil levels than those culturing Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Furthermore, patients culturing MAI compared to those culturing NTM other than MAI had higher eosinophil counts (mean 0.29x109/L vs 0.15x109/L, p=0.010) and IgE levels (geometric mean 138kU/L vs 47kU/L, p=0.021). However there was no significant difference in the frequency of asthma between the two NTM groups. / Conclusions: There is an association between biomarkers of Th2-type immune responses and pulmonary MAI. Prospective and translational research could identify the direction of causation; and so determine whether our finding may be utilized within future management strategies for MAI.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | An association between pulmonary Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex infections and biomarkers of Th2-type inflammation |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12931-017-0579-9 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-017-0579-9 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
| Keywords: | non-tuberculous mycobacteria, Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare, eosinophil, Th2 lymphocyte |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Infection and Immunity UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Respiratory Medicine |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1555612 |
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