Table 1.
Examples of pathogens that persist in adipose tissue.
| Species | Type of pathogen |
Disease | Host | Localization in Adipose Tissue |
Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Trypanosoma cruzi |
Parasite | Chagas disease |
Mouse, humans |
Cytoplasm of adipocytes | [9] |
|
Trypanosoma brucei |
Parasite | African trypanosomia sis |
Mouse, humans |
Interstitial spaces of visceral and subcutaneous AT |
[17] [18] [20] |
|
Plasmodium berghei |
Parasite | Malaria | Mouse | Inside vessels | [29] |
|
Rickettsia prowazekii |
Bacteria | Epidemic typhus |
Mouse | Cytoplasm of adipocytes | [59] |
|
Coxiella burnetii |
Bacteria | Q fever | Mouse | Intracellular: in adipocytes and macrophages |
[60] |
|
Mycobacteriu m tuberculosis |
Bacteria | Tuberculosis | Mouse, humans |
Adipocytes and stromal vascular fraction |
[61] |
| HIV & SIV | Virus | AIDS & SAIDS |
Humans, macaques |
Stromal vascular fraction (including immune cells) |
[54] |