title: Escape from fatal fusion.
abstract: In 1971, a seminal paper from the laboratory of Philip D'Arcy Hart reported that the intracellular pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis avoids destruction in the cell's lysosomes by avoiding these organelles altogether-a trick now known to be used by many other intracellular pathogens.
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004705:Endocytosis / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008247:Lysosomes / Q000378:metabolism*; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000378:metabolism*; D010588:Phagosomes / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000382:microbiology; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000378:metabolism