Correction: Mycobacterium tuberculosis arrests host cycle at the G1/S transition to establish long term infection.
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SUBMITTER: Cumming BM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5510850 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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