Effect of common and experimental anti-tuberculosis treatments on Mycobacterium tuberculosis growing as biofilms
Much is known regarding the antibiotic susceptibility of planktonic cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for the lung disease tuberculosis (TB). As planktonically-grown M. tuberculosis are unlikely to be entirely representative of the bacterium during infection, we set o...
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Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2016-11-01
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/2717.pdf |