TY - CHAP AU - María Mercedes Zambrano AU - Ginna Hernández-Neuta AU - Iván Hernández-Neuta AU - Andrea Sandoval AU - Andrés Cubillos-Ruiz AU - Alejandro Reyes AU - Patricia Del Portillo ED - Pere-Joan Cardona Y1 - 2012-02-17 PY - 2012 T1 - Genomic Variability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis N2 - 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. BT - Understanding Tuberculosis SP - Ch. 2 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/31276 DO - 10.5772/31276 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-27 ER -