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Scientists discover a surprising new way that tuberculosis suppresses immunity
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Scientists discover a surprising new way that tuberculosis suppresses immunity

by  University of Maryland Scanning electron micrograph of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which cause TB. Credit: NIAID When Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, infects a person, the body’s immune response is critical to how the disease will progress—either helping the body fight the bacterium or exacerbating the infection University of Maryland researchers discovered a way that Mtb can...