Mechanisms of Mycobacterial Transmission: How does Mycobacterium Tuberculosis enter and Escape from the Human Host

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In 1882, while lecturing on his discovery of the cause of tuberculosis, Robert Koch said "If the importance of a disease for mankind is measured by the number of fatalities it causes, then tuberculosis must be considered much more important than those most feared infectious diseases, plague, cholera and the like."Although Koch's identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) as the cause of tuberculosis...

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