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Douglas B. Young is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. This association indicates a connection to a leading institution known for research and higher education.

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Best Publications

  • The catalase—peroxidase gene and isoniazid resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Ying Zhang;Beate Heym;Bryan Allen;Douglas Young

  • The spectrum of latent tuberculosis: rethinking the biology and intervention strategies

    Clifton E. Barry;Helena I. Boshoff;Véronique Dartois;Thomas Dick

  • Out-of-Africa migration and Neolithic coexpansion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with modern humans

    Iñaki Comas;Mireia Coscolla;Mireia Coscolla;Tao Luo;Sonia Borrell;Sonia Borrell

  • Autoimmunity, microbial immunity and the immunological homunculus.

    Irun R Cohen;Douglas B Young

  • Pre-Columbian mycobacterial genomes reveal seals as a source of New World human tuberculosis

    Kirsten I. Bos;Kelly M. Harkins;Alexander Herbig;Mireia Coscolla

  • Stress proteins are immune targets in leprosy and tuberculosis.

    Douglas Young;Raju Lathigra;Roger Hendrix;Doug Sweetser

  • Tuberculosis: a problem with persistence

    Graham R. Stewart;Brian D. Robertson;Douglas B. Young

  • Confronting the scientific obstacles to global control of tuberculosis

    Douglas B. Young;Mark D. Perkins;Ken Duncan;Clifton E. Barry

  • The ongoing challenge of latent tuberculosis

    H. Esmail;H. Esmail;C. E. Barry;D. B. Young;D. B. Young;R. J. Wilkinson;R. J. Wilkinson;R. J. Wilkinson

  • Vitamin D accelerates resolution of inflammatory responses during tuberculosis treatment

    Anna K. Coussens;Robert J. Wilkinson;Robert J. Wilkinson;Yasmeen Hanifa;Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy

  • Recognition of a peptide antigen by heat shock--reactive gamma delta T lymphocytes.

    Willi Born;Lisa Hall;Angela Dallas;Joel Boymel

  • Stress proteins may provide a link between the immune response to infection and autoimmunity

    J. R. Lamb;V. Bal;P. Mendez-Samperio;A. Mehiert

  • The 19-kDa Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein induces macrophage apoptosis through Toll-like receptor-2.

    Martín López;Laura M. Sly;Yvonne Luu;Douglas Young

  • Dissection of the heat-shock response in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using mutants and microarrays.

    Graham R. Stewart;Lorenz Wernisch;Richard Stabler;Joseph A. Mangan

  • Mycobacterial protein antigens : a compilation

    D. B. Young;S. H. E. Kaufmann;P. W. M. Hermans;J. E. R. Thole

  • Genome-wide Mapping of Transcriptional Start Sites Defines an Extensive Leaderless Transcriptome in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Teresa Cortes;Olga T. Schubert;Graham Rose;Kristine B. Arnvig

  • Three pathways for trehalose biosynthesis in mycobacteria.

    Koen A. L. De Smet;Anthony Weston;Ivor N. Brown;Douglas B. Young

  • Human Macrophage Responses to Clinical Isolates from the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Discriminate between Ancient and Modern Lineages

    Damien Portevin;Sébastien Gagneux;Sébastien Gagneux;Sébastien Gagneux;Iñaki Comas;Douglas Young

  • Eliminating latent tuberculosis

    Douglas B. Young;Douglas B. Young;Hannah P. Gideon;Robert J. Wilkinson;Robert J. Wilkinson;Robert J. Wilkinson

  • Mycobacterial Lineages Causing Pulmonary and Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis, Ethiopia

    Rebuma Firdessa;Stefan Berg;Elena Hailu;Esther Schelling

  • Sequence-based analysis uncovers an abundance of non-coding RNA in the total transcriptome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

    Kristine B Arnvig;Iñaki Comas;Nicholas R. Thomson;Joanna Houghton

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Wilkinson
Robert J. Wilkinson The Francis Crick Institute
Brian D. Robertson
Brian D. Robertson Imperial College London
Abraham Aseffa
Abraham Aseffa Armauer Hansen Research Institute
Sebastien Gagneux
Sebastien Gagneux University of Basel
Katalin A. Wilkinson
Katalin A. Wilkinson The Francis Crick Institute
Juraj Ivanyi
Juraj Ivanyi King's College London
Gobena Ameni
Gobena Ameni United Arab Emirates University
R. Glyn Hewinson
R. Glyn Hewinson Aberystwyth University
Anne O'Garra
Anne O'Garra The Francis Crick Institute
Clifton E. Barry
Clifton E. Barry National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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