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Role of M Cells in Human Mucosal Immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), is a bacterial pathogen that infects roughly one-third of the worldÕs population and causes 1–2 million deaths per year. The current paradigm is that phagocytosis of Mtb by patrolling alveolar macrophages initiat...

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Autores principales: Nair, Vidhya, Khan, Haaris, Mitchell, Ron, Shiloh, Michael U
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5632152/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx162.111

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