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Life on the inside for Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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M. tuberculosis persists in the body, sequestered inside macrophages and subverting the phagocytic machinery to create a membrane-bound home. Microarray profiling studies reveal how the bacterium settles into its new environment.

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Figure 1: M. tuberculosis moves in.
Figure 2: Estimated tuberculosis (TB) incidence rates, 2001, as reported by the World Health Organization.

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McKinney, J., Gomez, J. Life on the inside for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nat Med 9, 1356–1357 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1103-1356

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