Advances in Immunological Mechanism Against Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection

Tuberculosis is a disease caused by a facultative intracellular pathogen-mycobacterium tuberculosis.Both specific immunity and non specific immunity are involved in protective immune response to mycobacterium.Futhermore,specific cellular immunity plays the most important roles,and the activation and propagation of T lymphocytes with αβ and γδ chains,play an important role in the immune response.In this article,we reviewed the current findings about the immunologic mechanism of host oppose mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.