Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Strategies of offense and defense


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Abstract

Strategies of macrophage attack by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and defense against immune response are considered in detail. The mechanisms of cell invasion, strategies of survival within phagosomes, methods for the suppression of antigen presentation, and pathways of M. tuberculosis transition into the persisting latent state are discussed.

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S. M. Rozov

Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch; Novosibirsk State University

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Email: rozov@bionet.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, pr. Lavrentyeva 10, Novosibirsk, 630090; ul. Pirogova 2, Novosibirsk, 630090

E. V. Deineko

Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch; Tomsk State University

Email: rozov@bionet.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, pr. Lavrentyeva 10, Novosibirsk, 630090; pr. Lenina 36, Tomsk, 634050

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