Cellular safety shelters allow TB agent to survive in infected individuals

Friday, November 14, 2008 - 05:42 in Health & Medicine

"Foamy" macrophage formation may be the key to persistence of infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis, explains a study published November 14 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens.

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