Article
The design and synthesis of a new lead against tuberculosis
2008-01-01
Abstract excerpt
It is estimated that one-third of the world's population has been exposed to the tuberculosis bacterium; killing eight million every year. Since the 1960s there have been no new drugs marketed, which is primarily due to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli having a complex cell wall structure, intracellular existence in the host and its ability to stay dormant for extended periods. The continual increase in drug...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 74e22d05-108e-5dea-8af2-2ab115c8bcc0
- DOI
- 10.48730/xhja-kv32
