Figure A -TB Before Autophagy (IMAGE)

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences

Figure A -TB Before Autophagy

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis (red) is hiding in human macrophages (blue and green) cultured in vitamin D deficient serum so it is not being efficiently killed by cathelicidin and other proteins.

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