Drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: An evolutionary perspective and its adaptation to the lung microenvironment
A highly specialized airborne human intracellular pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), causes the disease tuberculosis (TB), with one death per second and approximately 10 million cases per year worldwide. Mtb has emerged as a health risk due to its ability to adapt to drugs. The emergence of...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2024-12-01
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Series: | The Microbe |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950194624001560 |