Escape from fatal fusion.
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.
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