Hiding in Plain Sight (IMAGE)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Hiding in Plain Sight

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This image shows a macrophage with the mycobacterium M. avium. Bacteria like the one on the right are about to be broken down by lysosomes. But the blue strip in the middle contains bacteria that reside in phagosomes, which for some reason are not being transformed into the degrading lysosomes.

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Illustration: Alexandre Gidon, CEMIR and Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, NTNU

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