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Characterization of Membrane Vesicles Released by the Opportunistic Human Pathogen Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis (MAH) in Response to an in vitro System Mimicking the Phagosomal Environment

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Chiplunkar, Sanket S.

Abstract:

Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis (MAH) belongs to the most-clinically significant non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) pathogens with constant increase in disease prevalence, mainly in several industrialized western countries where tuberculosis is less prevalent. Upon entry into the alveolar space, MAH is engulfed by resident-macrophages, where the pathogen adapts to the hostile phagosomal...

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Masters Thesis

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the FEI Quant 600 FEG scanning electron microscope. Transmission electron microscopy was used to