A new apparatus enhances the biosafety of containment (biosafety level 3 [BSL-3]) and
provides experimental reproducibility for aerosol infection experiments with MDR and XDR
Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The methods are generally applicable to the
study of air-borne pathogens.
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