Why Is Long-Term Therapy Required to Cure Tuberculosis?
Open Access
- 20 March 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 4 (3), e120
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040120
Abstract
The authors argue that understanding and countering general bacterial mechanisms of phenotypic antibiotic resistance may hold the key to reducing the duration of treatment of all recalcitrant bacterial infections, including tuberculosis.Keywords
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