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Genomic and transcriptomic analysis of the streptomycin-dependent Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain 18b.
BMC genomics - 5 Mar 2016
Benjak Andrej, Uplekar Swapna, Zhang Ming, Piton Jérémie, Cole Stewart T, Sala Claudia
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BACKGROUND: The ability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to establish a latent infection (LTBI) in humans confounds the treatment of tuberculosis. Consequently, there is a need to discover new therapeutic agents that can kill M. tuberculosis both during active disease and LTBI. The streptomycin-dependent strain of M. tuberculosis, 18b, provides a useful tool for this purpose since upon removal of streptomycin (STR)...
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