Hellen Charles Hiza

This study shows that host-strain compatibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections leads to distinct transcriptional responses, with compatible combinations showing higher infection rates and shared pathways related to host proliferation.

The paper investigates how granulysin from immune cells induces dormancy in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, revealing an immune escape mechanism.

This study examines the relationship between human genetic ancestry, Mycobacterium tuberculosis diversity, and TB disease severity in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, finding no significant genetic influence on disease severity.

The study infects macrophages from tuberculosis patients with different MTBC lineages to show that bacterial phylogenetic diversity, not local adaptation, drives variable macrophage responses.

The paper improves genotype imputation in underrepresented populations by adding population-specific SNPs to existing reference panels, showing improved accuracy in a Tanzanian cohort.

The paper analyzes whole genome sequences of Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages L1 and L3 to show South Asia's role in their dispersion and identify local adaptation at the esxH locus.