Tuberculosis may remain dormant in bone marrow stem cells of infected patients

In what my colleague labels "a classic case of bench-to-bedside research," Stanford scientists and colleagues have discovered a possible reason for why tuberculosis frequently recurs years, or decades, after treatment: the ability of the disease to infiltrate and settle down in a particular class of stem cell in the bone marrow.

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