Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
The complex relationship between mycobacteria and macrophages: it's not all bliss.
- Journal:
- Cell host & microbe
- Year:
- 2007
- Authors:
- Fortune, Sarah M & Rubin, Eric J
- Affiliation:
- Harvard School of Public Health · United States
Abstract
Mycobacteria are uniquely adapted to grow inside host macrophages. As Clay et al. show in this issue of Cell Host & Microbe and as van der Wel et al. show in a recent issue of Cell, there are both benefits and drawbacks for the pathogen in adopting this strategy, and some of our fundamental assumptions about how the host cell and bacterium interact might need to be reexamined.
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