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. 2022 May 31;39(9):110896.
doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110896.

CD4 T cells are rapidly depleted from tuberculosis granulomas following acute SIV co-infection

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CD4 T cells are rapidly depleted from tuberculosis granulomas following acute SIV co-infection

Taylor W Foreman et al. Cell Rep. .
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Abstract

HIV/Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) co-infected individuals have an increased risk of tuberculosis prior to loss of peripheral CD4 T cells, raising the possibility that HIV co-infection leads to CD4 T cell depletion in lung tissue before it is evident in blood. Here, we use rhesus macaques to study the early effects of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) co-infection on pulmonary granulomas. Two weeks after SIV inoculation of Mtb-infected macaques, Mtb-specific CD4 T cells are dramatically depleted from granulomas, before CD4 T cell loss in blood, airways, and lymph nodes, or increases in bacterial loads or radiographic evidence of disease. Spatially, CD4 T cells are preferentially depleted from the granuloma core and cuff relative to B cell-rich regions. Moreover, live imaging of granuloma explants show that intralesional CD4 T cell motility is reduced after SIV co-infection. Thus, granuloma CD4 T cells may be decimated before many co-infected individuals experience the first symptoms of acute HIV infection.

Keywords: CD4 T cells; CP: Immunology; CP: Microbiology; SIV; granulomas; live imaging; tuberculosis.

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