Prevalence, Drug Resistance, and Genotypic Diversity of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Family in Ecuador.
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DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2018.0429
Abstract: The Beijing family, the most successful Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage, is considered hypervirulent, associated with clustering and has a strong association with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. The Beijing strains have spread worldwide and also to Latin America. Genotyping… read more here.
Keywords: beijing family; beijing; tuberculosis; tuberculosis beijing ... See more keywords
The autophagy-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing strain upregulates KatG to evade starvation-induced autophagic restriction
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DOI: 10.1093/femspd/ftac004
Abstract: Abstract Mycobacterium tuberculosis utilizes several mechanisms to block phagosome–lysosome fusion to evade host cell restriction. However, induction of host cell autophagy by starvation was shown to overcome this block, resulting in enhanced lysosomal delivery to… read more here.
Keywords: induced autophagic; restriction; starvation; tuberculosis beijing ... See more keywords