Views on the sustenance of resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the environment.

doi:10.1016/0306-9877(95)90215-5

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Views on the sustenance of resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the environment.

Medical hypotheses - 1 Nov 1995

Basu A, Mistry N F, Antia N H

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Microbial resistance to conventional as well as newly introduced drugs is a hallmark feature of several infectious diseases, notably tuberculosis. It is hypothesized that the greater the selective pressure exerted by increasingly potent drugs, the more rapidly is an organism able to adapt to a dr...

Topics

Antitubercular Agents
Drug Resistance, Multiple
Humans
Immunocompromised Host
Models, Biological
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Phenotype
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary

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