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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Main Authors: Satyendra Shukla, Nitin Bhardwaj, Ashutosh Singh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-12-01
Series:The Microbe
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950194624001560