Effect of common and experimental anti-tuberculosis treatments on Mycobacterium tuberculosis growing as biofilms

Much is known regarding the antibiotic susceptibility of planktonic cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for the lung disease tuberculosis (TB). As planktonically-grown M. tuberculosis are unlikely to be entirely representative of the bacterium during infection, we set o...

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Main Authors: James P. Dalton, Benedict Uy, Narisa Phummarin, Brent R. Copp, William A. Denny, Simon Swift, Siouxsie Wiles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2016-11-01
Series:PeerJ
Subjects:
MTB
TB
Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/2717.pdf