Article
Drug-Tolerant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Adopt Different Survival Strategies in Alveolar Macrophages of Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis
2023-08-21
Abstract excerpt
The emergence of drug-resistant strains of M. tuberculosis (Mtb) and the phenomenon of phe-notypic tolerance to drugs challenge the goal of tuberculosis (TB) elimination worldwide. By using the ex vivo cultures of alveolar macrophages obtained from lung tissues of TB patients after intensive antimicrobial chemotherapy before surgery, different subpopulations of multi-drug-tolerant Mtb with a spectrum of phenotypic...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f9bf3a8d-2c03-51a5-a61c-f5579fcbb0da
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202308.1427.v1
