PLOS Special Collection Launch: Shaping Novel TB Treatments (IMAGE)

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PLOS Special Collection Launch: Shaping Novel TB Treatments

Caption

This illustration depicts a three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated image of a cluster of rod-shaped, drug-resistant, Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, the pathogen responsible for causing the disease tuberculosis (TB). The artistic recreation was based upon scanning electron microscopic (SEM) imagery.

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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention- Medical Illustrator, Public Health Image Library (PHIL) / https://phil.cdc.gov/details_linked.aspx?pid=16881

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