A replication clock for Mycobacterium tuberculosis
2009
Does Mycobacterium tuberculosis replicate in vivo, or does it persist in the host in a nonreplicating latent state? David Sherman and his colleagues have developed a technique to answer this question in mice and find that the mycobacteria do replicate in vivo. It is unknown whether these findings will hold true in other animals, particularly nonhuman primates, but this technique could be applied to study the in vivo replication of other persistent pathogens responsible for chronic infections.
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