Mysterious outbreak of bone-eating tuberculosis resembled an ancestral form

ScienceDaily
Nov 9, 2022, 9:16 pm96 pts
The force driving a strange outbreak of tuberculosis that exited the lungs and began chewing away at bones 15 years ago in North Carolina has been solved at the molecular level by a collaborative team of scientists. The mysterious bug reverted to an ancestral form that made its macrophage hosts much more mobile…

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