Mycobacterium tuberculosis infects the respiratory tract and establishes a complex interplay with the host immune system. Upon inhalation, bacilli are phagocytosed by alveolar macrophages but evade ...

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are zinc-dependent endopeptidases that orchestrate the degradation of extracellular matrix components during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. In pulmonary ...

lasma metabolomic analysis in active tuberculosis patients and healthy controls. Cerebral tuberculosis (CTB), a severe and often fatal form of central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis, poses ...

Presented at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Boston, May 21, 1940. Select the format you want to export the citation of this publication.

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that kills more than a million people worldwide every year. The pathogen that causes the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is deadly in part because of ...