title: Battle for survival: interplay between pathogenic mycobacteria and the host immune system.
abstract: Mycobacteria tuberculosis infects about one third of the world population in their life times and causes millions of deaths each year. M. tuberculosis has a unique capability to circumvent the bactericidal activities of macrophages - the frontline defenders of the host immunity. New understanding of this mechanism has positioned scientists to develop therapies that allow host immune system to gain an upper hand.
authors.affiliation: Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Liem
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pieters
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008264:Macrophages / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology; D009161:Mycobacterium / Q000276:immunology*; D009164:Mycobacterium Infections / Q000276:immunology*; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000276:immunology; D010587:Phagocytosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D010588:Phagosomes / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology*