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Intracellular localisation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis affects efficacy of the antibiotic pyrazinamide.
Nature communications - 21 Jun 2021
Santucci Pierre, Greenwood Daniel J, Fearns Antony, Chen Kai, Jiang Haibo, Gutierrez Maximiliano G
Abstract excerpt
To be effective, chemotherapy against tuberculosis (TB) must kill the intracellular population of the pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. However, how host cell microenvironments affect antibiotic accumulation and efficacy remains unclear. Here, we use correlative light, electron, and ion microscopy to investigate how various microenvironments within human macrophages affect the activity of pyrazinamide (PZA),...
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