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The Tuberculous Granuloma: An Unsuccessful Host Defence Mechanism Providing a Safety Shelter for the Bacteria?

One of the main features of the immune response to M. Tuberculosis is the formation of an organized structure called granuloma. It consists mainly in the recruitment at the infectious stage of macrophages, highly differentiated cells such as multinucleated giant cells, epithelioid cells and Foamy ce...

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Autores principales: Silva Miranda, Mayra, Breiman, Adrien, Allain, Sophie, Deknuydt, Florence, Altare, Frederic
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22811737
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/139127