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SUBMITTER: Raffetseder J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4227709 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Raffetseder Johanna J Pienaar Elsje E Blomgran Robert R Eklund Daniel D Patcha Brodin Veronika V Andersson Henrik H Welin Amanda A Lerm Maria M
PloS one 20141111 11
The standard treatment of tuberculosis (TB) takes six to nine months to complete and this lengthy therapy contributes to the emergence of drug-resistant TB. TB is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and the ability of this bacterium to switch to a dormant phenotype has been suggested to be responsible for the slow clearance during treatment. A recent study showed that the replication rate of a non-virulent mycobacterium, Mycobacterium smegmatis, did not correlate with antibiotic susceptib ...[more]