Spotlight on mycobacteria and dendritic cells: will novel targets to fight tuberculosis emerge?

Over thousands of years microbes and mammals have co-evolved, resulting in extraordinarily sophisticated molecular mechanisms permitting the organisms to survive together. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the best examples of successful co-evolution, since the bacilli have infected one third of...

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Main Authors: Mortellaro, Alessandra, Robinson, Lucy, Ricciardi-Castagnoli, Paola
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: WILEY-VCH Verlag 2009
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3378112/