Images of Animal Lungs Showing Substantial Areas of Tb Infection or Very Little or No Infection (IMAGE)

NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Images of Animal Lungs Showing Substantial Areas of Tb Infection or Very Little or No Infection

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Three-dimensional PET-CT scans of lungs showing areas of TB infection and tissue inflammation (red and orange) in macaques challenged with Mtb after vaccination with either ID BCG (top row) or IV BCG (bottom).

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University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

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