Pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its Interaction with the Host Organism

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pieters, Jean (Editor), McKinney, John D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 374
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Medical microbiology.; Drug resistance.; Molecular biology.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Molecular Medicine.; Drug Resistance.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the most notorious pathogens on earth, causing the death of approximately 1.5 million people annually. A major problem in the fight against tuberculosis is the emergence of strains that have acquired resistance to all available antibiotics. One key to the success...