5-Fluoroindole Reduces the Bacterial Burden in a Murine Model of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection
Christiano E. Neves,
Josiane D. Paz,
Bruno L. Abbadi
et al.
Abstract:Tuberculosis is a disease caused by a single pathogen that leads to a death toll estimated to be more than a million per year. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), which affects mainly the lungs, spreads by airborne transmission when infectious respiratory particles from an infected human enter the respiratory tract of another person. Despite diagnosis and treatment being well established, the rise of cases of patients infected with Mtb strains with multidrug resistance to the antibiotics used in the regimen agai… Show more
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