Resumen de Wheeling and Dealing With Antigen Presentation in Tuberculosis

Denis Hudrisier, Olivier Neyrolles

• In tuberculosis, antigens are transferred from infected to uninfected dendritic cells. Does this favor T lymphocyte response and anti-mycobacterial host defense? In a recent report published in Cell Host & Microbe, Ernst and colleagues show that Mycobacterium tuberculosis seems to have hijacked this mechanism for its own benefit.