Researchers at Forsyth Institute in Boston have discovered that bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes tuberculosis, can lay dormant within bone marrow stem cells for a long period of time before resurfacing as active disease. The microbe iMycobacterium tuberculosis/i (Mtb) causes deadly disease in millions of humans and infects and persists in billions of others without causing apparent harm, yet maintaining the potential to "re-activate" and cause ...Saturday, 2 February 2013
Researchers Shed New Light on Latent Tuberculosis
Researchers at Forsyth Institute in Boston have discovered that bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes tuberculosis, can lay dormant within bone marrow stem cells for a long period of time before resurfacing as active disease. The microbe iMycobacterium tuberculosis/i (Mtb) causes deadly disease in millions of humans and infects and persists in billions of others without causing apparent harm, yet maintaining the potential to "re-activate" and cause ...
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