Scientists solve 3-D structure of 'nanomachine' that makes tuberculosis virulent

An international team headed by Óscar Llorca at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), and the group led by Sebastian Geibel at the University of Würzburg (Germany), report an accurate 3-D model of the mechanism used by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis to block the immune response when infecting an organism.