Khader Howard, Washington University School of Medicine (image)

Washington University School of Medicine

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Graduate student Nicole Howard works in a biosafety cabinet with the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB), while Shabaana Khader, Ph.D., looks on. Howard and Khader found that the same mutation that gives TB bacteria drug resistance also elicits a weaker immune response.

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Matt Miller

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