Mycobacterium tuberculosis : Bacterial Fitness within the Host Macrophage

Mycobacterium tuberculosis has evolved to become the single greatest cause of death from an infectious agent. The pathogen spends most of its infection cycle in its human host within a phagocyte. The bacterium has evolved to block the normal maturation and acidification of its phagosome and resides...

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Published in:	Microbiology spectrum Vol. 7; no. 2
Main Authors:	Huang, Lu, Nazarova, Evgeniya V., Russell, David G.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States ASM Press 01.03.2019
Subjects:	Animals Anti-Bacterial Agents - pharmacology Cytokines - metabolism Host-Pathogen Interactions Humans Macrophages Macrophages - microbiology Microbial Viability Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis - drug effects Mycobacterium tuberculosis - growth & development Mycobacterium tuberculosis - metabolism Mycobacterium tuberculosis - physiology Pathogenesis Phagocytes - microbiology Phagosomes - microbiology Tuberculosis Tuberculosis - immunology Tuberculosis - microbiology Vacuoles - microbiology
ISSN:	2165-0497, 2165-0497
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