Pathogenesis

Mycobacteria's Invasion of Epithelial Cells Significant

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, July 17th, 1995

The ability of certain strains of mycobacteria to invade epithelial cells may represent an important phenotypic characteristic and could be directly related to pathogenicity.

A successful pathogen can gain entry into a susceptible host and subsequently multiply. Mycobacterium avium is a facultative intracellular pathogen that is capable of invading and replicating within macrophages, fibroblasts, endothelial cells and mucosal epithelial cells. M. tuberculosis is a respiratory pathogen that upon histopathologic sectioning of infected tissues may be found within lung macrophages.

In this study researcher L.E. Bermudez and colleagues...

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