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Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) has been implicated in the development and pathogenicity of infectious diseases and autoimmune disorders, such as septic shock, arthritis, and hypotension [ 1 2 3 4 ] . It plays a pivotal role in the inflammatory cascade and, together with IL-1 and IL-6, has been shown to mediate the acute-phase response [ 5 6 ] . Confirmation of its significance in disease comes from the success of clinical trials using anti-TNF therapy to treat rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease [ 7 8 9 10 ] .
The rapidly growing molecular datasets for secondary (or young primary) insect endosymbionts have identified pathways that are considered to be required for pathogenicity, such as Type III secretion (Dale et al.
A key feature of the pathogenicity of M. tuberculosis is its ability to evade the antimicrobial processes of the macrophage and replicate intracellularly.
However, the failure to maintain the resistant virus on subsequent passage suggests that the pathogenicity of 14-P4 may have been only partially attenuated relative to the sensitive virus and indeed the pathogenicity of the clonal virus isolate, 14-P4E, was severely attenuated.
The inability to detect sterilizing immunity in high-dose challenge experiments led to a shift of focus towards indirect effects of vaccine candidates on the pathogenicity of the infection and the infectiousness of the vaccinee.