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Hypoxia inducible factor signaling modulates susceptibility to mycobacterial infection via a nitric oxide dependent mechanism.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Jan 2013
Elks Philip M, Brizee Sabrina, van der Vaart Michiel, Walmsley Sarah R, van Eeden Fredericus J, Renshaw Stephen A, Meijer Annemarie H
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Tuberculosis is a current major world-health problem, exacerbated by the causative pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), becoming increasingly resistant to conventional antibiotic treatment. Mtb is able to counteract the bactericidal mechanisms of leukocytes to survive intracellularly and d...
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