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Nature Medicine 13, 282-284 (1 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/nm0307-282;

The survival kit of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Digby F Warner & Valerie Mizrahi

Macrophages are phagocytes at the frontline of host immune defense against microbial pathogens. They are also the primary habitat of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: unlike bacteria that dependent on the avoidance of phagocytosis to survive, M. tuberculosis preferentially targets macrophage vacuoles.

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