Evaluation of the role of Mycobacterium tuberculosis pili (MTP) as an adhesin, invasin, and cytokine inducer of epithelial cells.

The mutant strain also induced the lowest levels of IL-4, IL-8, and IFN-γ at 48 h post-infection compared with the MTP-proficient strains, but this did not reach statistical significance ( Fig. 2 b, d and f).

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