Tuberculosis remains one of the leading infectious causes of adult mortality worldwide and has affected humans for thousands of years. The disease-causing organism, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, was ...

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 ...

It is the disappearance of a glycolipid from the bacterial cell envelope during evolution that may have considerably increased the virulence of tuberculosis bacilli in humans. Scientists have shown ...

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Sessions on nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTM-PD) were particularly well attended at the recent 27th International Congress of the European Respiratory Society, reflecting the rising ...