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Intracellular replication of attenuated Mycobacterium tuberculosis phoP mutant in the absence of host cell cytotoxicity.
Microbes and infection - 1 Jan 2009
Ferrer Nadia L, Gómez Ana B, Soto Carlos Y, Neyrolles Olivier, Gicquel Brigitte, García-Del Portillo Francisco, Martín Carlos
Abstract excerpt
Intracellular pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis survives and replicates in macrophages but limited information is available on its replication into non-phagocytic cells. Here we study the role of the M. tuberculosis virulence gene phoP in the intracellular growth with rat and human lung fibrobl...
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