Tuberculosis: Mycobacterium tuberculosis—Infection Control and Antibiotic Resistance
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 1894
Special Issue Editors
Interests: molecular biology; cell culture; immunology of infectious disease
Interests: antibiotic resistance; infectious diseases; tuberculosis; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; genome; bacterial; molecular epidemiology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a pathogenic bacterium from the Mycobacteriaceae family, and it is the external agent that causes tuberculosis. Tuberculosis generally affects the respiratory system, in most of cases, the lungs. The treatment of the disease requires the use of multiple antibiotics over a long period of time, which can lead to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms, a major problem in public health.
Tuberculosis (TB) infection control represents a major subject of research in the scientific field, with TB being a serious condition that can be fatal if left untreated. Due to the use of antibiotics in the treatment of this infection and the long period of treatment required, the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the infected patients may be reported.This Special Issue welcomes any type of papers that discuss infection and treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The treatment of tuberculosis is extremely challenging and requires the use of multiple drugs in a strict regimen, in order to obtain a successful cure. Taking this into consideration, we invite the contributors to submit manuscripts that describe the infection control, antibiotic treatment, ways of detection, transmission, prevention, diagnosis, risk factors and pathogenesis of this bacteria, new drugs and compounds for tuberculosis treatment, etc.
Dr. Sandeep Upadhyay
Dr. Chongguang Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- tuberculosis
- antibiotic resistance
- infection control
- diagnosis
- treatment
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