Large Extracellular Cord Formation in a Zebrafish Model of Mycobacterium kansasii Infection

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Mycobacterium kansasii is a slow-growing nontuberculous mycobacteria responsible for coinfections particularly in patients with human immunodeficiency virus. To date, our knowledge of M. kansasii infection has been hampered owing to the lack of an effective animal model to study pathogenesis. In the current study, we showed that the zebrafish embryo is permissive to M. kansasii infection, resulting in chronic...

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