Repurposing—a ray of hope in tackling extensively drug resistance in tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a serious concern more than two decades on from when the World Health Organization declared it a global health emergency. The alarming rise of antibiotic resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the etiological agent of TB, has made it exceedingly difficult to control the...
Main Authors: | Arundhati Maitra, Sadé Bates, Trupti Kolvekar, Padma V. Devarajan, Juan D. Guzman, Sanjib Bhakta |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2015-03-01
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Series: | International Journal of Infectious Diseases |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971214017494 |
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