Microbiology: An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780321733603
Author: Gerard J. Tortora, Berdell R. Funke, Christine L. Case
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a bacterium which lives in the macrophage and it is spread through droplet infection. The cell wall is made of lipid and glycoproteins and it lacks the bacterial cell wall components. It easily escapes from the host phagolysosomes through various mechanisms.
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