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Controlling Extra- and Intramacrophagic Mycobacterium abscessus by Targeting Mycolic Acid Transport
1 Sept 2017
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium abscessus is a rapidly growing mycobacterium (RGM) causing serious infections especially among cystic fibrosis patients. Extremely limited therapeutic options against M. abscessus and a rise in infections with this mycobacterium require novel chemotherapies and a better understanding of how the bacterium causes infection. Different from most RGM, M. abscessus can survive inside macrophages and...
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