Understanding Tuberculosis: Deciphering the Secret Life of the Bacilli (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789533079462)

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, as recent investigations demonstrate, has a complex signaling expression, which allows its close interaction with the environment and one of its most renowned properties: the ability to persist for long periods of time under a non-replicative status. Although this skill is well characterized in other bacteria, the intrinsically very slow growth rate of Mycobium tuberculosis, together with a very thick and complex cell wall, makes this pathogen specially adapted to the stress that could be generated by the host against them. In this book, different aspects of these properties are displayed by specialists in the field.

Author: Pere-Joan Cardona
ISBN-10: 9533079460
ISBN-13: 9789533079462
Publisher: Intechopen
Language: English
Published: 02/17/2012
Pages: 348
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.66lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.81d