mycobacterium
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Research problems linked to this topic
- Mycobacterium xenopi is a water-related mycobacterium with low pathogenicity in humans.
- Persons co-infected with mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and HIV are at increased risk for developing active tuberculosis.
- Mycobacterial diseases are persistent and characterized by lengthy latent periods.
- Skeletal tuberculosis is a rare form of extrapulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.
- In the last two decades, multi (MDR), extensively (XDR), extremely (XXDR) and total (TDR) drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) strains have emerged as a threat to public health worldwide, stressing the need to develop new tuberculosis (TB) prevention and treatment strategies.
- Clostridium difficile is an anaerobic, Gram-positive, spore-forming bacillus that causes disease ranging from self-limiting diarrhoea to severe pseudomembranous colitis.
- Host metabolism reprogramming is a key feature of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection that enables the survival of this pathogen within phagocytic cells and modulates the immune response facilitating the spread of the tuberculosis disease.
- The intracellular pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is constantly exposed to a multitude of hostile conditions and is confronted by a variety of potentially DNA-damaging assaults in vivo, primarily from host-generated antimicrobial toxic radicals.