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Research

 

The Sassetti Lab studies the unique phisiology of the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the disease it causes. 

 

M. tuberculosis can maintain a chronic infection by adapting to many distinctly different host microenvironments. Our lab is focused on defining the survival strategies used by this pathogen in each of these environments.

Mycobacterium 
tuberculosis

 

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is often called the world's most successful pathogen.

 

It is estimated that one third of the human population has been exposed to this organism, and tuberculosis (TB) kills millions every year.

 

New and more effective drug treatments are urgently needed to treat TB infections. 

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