The Immune Escape Mechanisms of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Zhai, Weijie; Wu, Fengjuan; Zhang, Yiyuan; Fu, Yurong; Liu, Zhijun

doi:10.3390/ijms20020340

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The Immune Escape Mechanisms of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences • Jan 15, 2019

Authors:

Weijie Zhai

Fengjuan Wu

Yiyuan Zhang

Abstract

Epidemiological data from the Center of Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) statistics in 2017 show that 10.0 million people around the world became sick with tuberculosis. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is an intracellular parasite that mainly attacks macrophages and inh...

Subject

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Immune system

Tuberculosis

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