TY - CHAP AU - Aaron Silva-Sanchez AU - Selene Meza-Pérez AU - Fernando Muñoz-Teneria AU - Dulce Mata AU - Juana Calderon-Amador AU - Sergio Estrada-Parra AU - Rogelio Hernández-Pando AU - Iris Estrada-García AU - Leopoldo Flores-Romo ED - Pere-Joan Cardona Y1 - 2012-02-17 PY - 2012 T1 - Mycobacterial Strains of Different Virulence Trigger Dissimilar Patterns of Immune System Activation In Vivo 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. 9 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/31146 DO - 10.5772/31146 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -