in order to understand the discrepant results between in vitro and in vivo activity of rifabutin ( lm 427 ) against mycobacterium intracellulare , we studied its effects upon the phagocytosis of m. intracellulare by resident and activated mouse peritoneal and alveolar macrophages and upon growth of m. intracellulare inside these cells .
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