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

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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 drug-containing environment. The roles of drug-containing environments, and the immunological status of the host and...

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