The non-pathogenic mycobacteria M. smegmatis and M. fortuitum induce rapid host cell apoptosis via a caspase-3 and TNF dependent pathway

BACKGROUND: The HIV pandemic raised the potential for facultative-pathogenic mycobacterial species like, Mycobacterium kansasii, to cause disseminating disease in humans with immune deficiencies. In contrast, non-pathogenic mycobacterial species, like M. smegmatis, are not known to cause disseminati...

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Autores principales: Bohsali, Amro, Abdalla, Hana, Velmurugan, Kamalakannan, Briken, Volker
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2944237/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20831789
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-10-237

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2944237/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20831789
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-10-237

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