Evolution of Drug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis : Clinical and Molecular Perspective
Year: 2002
Type: review
Abstract: The story of antituberculosis chemotherapy is a miniature of the history of anti-infective chemotherapy. In the first half of the 20th century the problem of tuberculosis appeared insoluble: the lipid-rich cell wall was believed to make chemotherapy impossible ([21][1]). This gloomy view seemed to
Author: Stephen H. Gillespie
Institutions: The Royal Free Hospital, University College London
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2143607548