Multiplication of Mycobacterium marinum within phagolysosomes of murine macrophages.
Both in vivo and in vitro, Mycobacterium marinum organisms were found to multiply within phagolysosomes of murine macrophages. It thus appears that M. marinum are neither killed nor inhibited from multiplying by lysosomal enzymes.
D000818:Animals; D008247:Lysosomes / Q000382:microbiology*; D008264:Macrophages / Q000382:microbiology*; D051379:Mice; D008808:Mice, Inbred CBA; D009161:Mycobacterium / Q000254:growth & development*; D009170:Nontuberculous Mycobacteria / Q000254:growth & development*