A New Screen for Tuberculosis Drug Candidates Utilizing a Luciferase-Expressing Recombinant Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guéren.

A New Screen for Tuberculosis Drug Candidates Utilizing a Luciferase-Expressing Recombinant Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guéren.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious infectious disease caused by a bacterial pathogen. Mortality from tuberculosis was estimated at 1.5 million deaths worldwide in 2013. Development of new TB drugs is needed to not only to shorten the medication period but also to treat multi-drug resistant and extensive...

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Main Authors: Yuriko Ozeki, Masayuki Igarashi, Matsumi Doe, Aki Tamaru, Naoko Kinoshita, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Tomotada Iwamoto, Ryuichi Sawa, Maya Umekita, Shymaa Enany, Yukiko Nishiuchi, Mayuko Osada-Oka, Tetsuya Hayashi, Mamiko Niki, Yoshitaka Tateishi, Masaki Hatano, Sohkichi Matsumoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4646695?pdf=render

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