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Human macrophage responses to clinical isolates from the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex discriminate between ancient and modern lineages.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Mar 2011
Portevin Damien, Gagneux Sébastien, Comas Iñaki, Young Douglas
Abstract excerpt
The aim of the present study was to determine whether there is a correlation between phylogenetic relationship and inflammatory response amongst a panel of clinical isolates representative of the global diversity of the human Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex (MTBC). Measurement of cytokines from infected human peripheral blood monocyte-derived macrophages revealed a wide variation in the response to different...
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