Tuberculosis
New Findings from Chongqing University of Medical Sciences in the Area of Tuberculosis Published
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, October 25th, 2011
2011 OCT 25 -- "Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a facultative intracellular pathogen that has evolved the ability to survive and multiply within human macrophages. The enhanced intracellular survival (eis) gene (Rv2416c) from M. tuberculosis has been identified as a potential factor that can enhance the intracellular survival of Mycobacterium smegmatis in the macrophage cell line," investigators in Chongqing, People's Republic of China report.
"However, the time requirements for intracellular survival testing of Mycobacterium using classical methodologies are still too long. In this study, we used M. smegmatis mc(2)155 that contains eis to develop and study a...
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