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Early Antibody-Mediated Immunity to Tuberculosis in Mice Requires NLRP3
Rania Bouzeyen, Nyaradzai Sithole, Avia Watson…·Babak Javid
This study shows that antibodies against Mtb enhance immunity via NLRP3 inflammasome activation in mice, independent of Fc receptors, and this mechanism applies to polyclonal sera in rhesus macaques.