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. 2016 Dec;11(12):1503-1506.
doi: 10.2217/fmb-2016-0185. Epub 2016 Nov 10.

Mechanisms of mycobacterial transmission: how does Mycobacterium tuberculosis enter and escape from the human host

Michael U Shiloh  1   2
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Mechanisms of mycobacterial transmission: how does Mycobacterium tuberculosis enter and escape from the human host

Michael U Shiloh. Future Microbiol. 2016 Dec.
No abstract available

Keywords: Mycobacterium tuberculosis; immunology; microbe–host interaction.

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Conflict of interest statement

Financial & competing interests disclosure

M Shiloh is supported by NIH funding, grant numbers AI099439, AI109725, AI125939, AI111023. The author has no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.

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