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Blueprint for the white plague

Nature volume 393, pages 515–516 (1998)Cite this article

With annual deaths from Mycobacterium tuberculosis estimated at around three million, this single pathogen claims more human lives than any other. What we now learn from the sequence of its genome should help in devising new strategies to fight it.

“Now — under the microscope the structures of the animal tissues⃛ are brown, while the tubercle bacteria are a beautiful blue.”

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Figure 2: Electron micrograph of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the genome of which has now been sequenced by Cole et al.2

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