Monosodium Urate Crystals Promote Innate Anti-Mycobacterial Immunity and Improve BCG Efficacy as a Vaccine against Tuberculosis

• Francesco Taus,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

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• Marilina B. Santucci,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

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• Emanuela Greco,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

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• Matteo Morandi,

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Catholic University of Sacred Hearth, Rome, Italy

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• Ivana Palucci,

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Catholic University of Sacred Hearth, Rome, Italy

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• Sabrina Mariotti,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immuno-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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• Noemi Poerio,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

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• Roberto Nisini,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immuno-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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• Giovanni Delogu,

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Catholic University of Sacred Hearth, Rome, Italy

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• Maurizio Fraziano

  * E-mail: fraziano@bio.uniroma2.it

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

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