Macrophage takeover and the host-bacilli interplay during tuberculosis

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Fluorescence Assays for the Study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Interaction with the Immune Receptor SLAMF1
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Khalid Hussain Bhat, Sangita Mukhopadhyay

    Future Microbiology
    |May 23, 2015
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    Mycobacterium tuberculosisMycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesishost responsesmacrophage immune responsessignaling cascades

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