Immunology (TB)

Scientists Find Possible New Way To Fight Tuberculosis

Published in Vaccine Weekly, September 8th, 1997

U.S. researchers said they had discovered how the tuberculosis bacterium and its cousin leprosy invade cells, and said this could open new avenues to treating the two diseases.

The bacteria hijack one component of the immune system and use it like a Trojan horse to sneak into immune cells known as macrophages, which they then destroy, the researchers reported in Science.

"This study helps us understand what's special about this bacterium and what makes it such an effective pathogen," said Eric Brown, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, who co-authored the report.

Scientists have known the tuberculosis bacillus invades...

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