Richard M Armstrong, Katherine L Adams, Joseph E Zilisch, Daniel J Bretl, Hiromi Sato, David M Anderson, Thomas C Zahrt
UNLABELLED: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, despite the availability of a live attenuated vaccine and anti-TB antibiotics. The vast majority of individuals infected with M. tuberculosis develop an asymptomatic latent infection in which the bacterium survives within host-generated granulomatous lesions in a physiologically altered metabolic state of nonreplicating persistence. The granuloma represents an adverse environment, as M...
June 1, 2016: Journal of Bacteriology