The Capacity of <italic toggle="yes">Mycobacterium tuberculosis</italic> To Survive Iron Starvation Might Enable It To Persist in Iron-Deprived Microenvironments of Human Granulomas
ABSTRACT This study was conducted to investigate the role of iron deprivation in the persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We present evidence of iron restriction in human necrotic granulomas and demonstrate that under iron starvation M. tuberculosis persists, refractive to antibiotics and capa...
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American Society for Microbiology
2017
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