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Clinical and Translational Medicine
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From: Application of metabolomics to drug discovery and understanding the mechanisms of action of medicinal plants with anti-tuberculosis activity

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Tuberculosis infection and development: after the transmission with infectious aerosol, the M.tb bacilli infect the lung macrophages, dendritic cells and neutrophils. The infection may result in active or latent. The latent and active infection can be spread to extrapulmonary organs. The reactivation of latent infection results in secondary TB

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