Intrinsic activation of the vitamin D antimicrobial pathway by M. leprae infection is inhibited by type I IFN.

• Asıl Yazarlar: Kathryn Zavala (Yazar), Carter A Gottlieb (Yazar), Rosane M Teles (Yazar), John S Adams (Yazar), Martin Hewison (Yazar), Robert L Modlin (Yazar), Philip T Liu (Yazar)
• Materyal Türü: Kitap
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Konular: article
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Following infection, virulent mycobacteria persist and grow within the macrophage, suggesting that the intrinsic activation of an innate antimicrobial response is subverted by the intracellular pathogen. For Mycobacterium leprae, the intracellular bacterium that causes leprosy, the addition of exoge...