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A team from the Institut Pasteur has recently shown that the tuberculosis bacillus hides from the immune system in its host's fat cells. This formidable pathogen is protected against even the most ...

IT HAS been shown that para-aminosalicylic acid (PAS) has a definite bacteriostatic effect on human strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro 1–4 and in vivo. 3–9 It is also known that its ...

The pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) has evolved to cause infection in many, but active disease in few. The World Health Organization estimates that one third of the planet's population ...

Robert Heinrich Herman Koch, a German physician and microbiologist, received Nobel Prize in 1905 for identifying the specific causative agent of tuberculosis (TB). During his time it was believed that ...

Background: The identification of non-tuberculosis (TB) mycobacterial (NTM) infection remains a significant challenge. This study aims to investigate the diagnostic value of multicolour nested ...