New Delhi, Jul 20 : Tuberculosis infection results in approximately nine million new cases worldwide every year.
TB-causing bacterium can remain dormant in human body for a long time, even for several decades before it becomes infectious. The bacterium remains ensconced within a type of white blood cells called macrophages, when it is in its latent form.
A team of researchers from Kolkata-based CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Bose Institute and Jadavpur University have figured out how tuberculosis bacterium is released from its reservoir inside the human body, according to an India Science Wire report by Sunderarajan Padmanabhan.
Scientists figure out molecular mechanism behind latent TB
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