Tolerance and Persistence to Drugs: A Main Challenge in the Fight Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

The treatment of tuberculosis is extremely long. One of the reasons why Mycobacterium tuberculosis elimination from the organism takes so long is that in particular environmental conditions it can become tolerant to drugs and/or develop persisters able to survive killing even from very high drug con...

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Main Authors: Francesca Boldrin, Roberta Provvedi, Laura Cioetto Mazzabò, Greta Segafreddo, Riccardo Manganelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01924/full