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Targeting Dormant Bacilli to Fight Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), which kills about 2 million people annually. Furthermore, 2 billion people worldwide are latently infected with this organism, with 10% of them reactivating to active TB due to re-growth of nonreplicating (dormant...

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Autores principales: Fattorini, Lanfranco, Piccaro, Giovanni, Mustazzolu, Alessandro, Giannoni, Federico
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3867226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24363887
http://dx.doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2013.072