The global control and management of tuberculosis (TB) is faced with the formidable
challenge of worsening scenarios of drug-resistant disease. Pyrazinamide (PZA) is an …

Antibiotic resistance is a global public health concern, posing a significant threat to the
effectiveness of antibiotics in treating bacterial infections. The accurate and timely detection …

Strain-specific genomic diversity in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) is an
important factor in pathogenesis that may affect virulence, transmissibility, host response …

We sequenced pncA and rpsA genes plus flanking regions of 161 Mycobacterium
tuberculosis isolates and found 10 new pncA and 3 novel rpsA mutations in pyrazinamide …

Background Tuberculosis (TB) poses a worldwide threat due to advancing multidrug-
resistant strains and deadly co-infections with Human immunodeficiency virus. Today large …

Atypical and multidrug resistance, especially ESBL and carbapenemase expressing
Enterobacteriaceae, is globally spreading. Therefore, it becomes increasingly difficult to …

The present review discusses the problem of controlling mycoplasmas (class Mollicutes), the
smallest of self-replicating prokaryotes, parasites of higher eukaryotes, and main …

Mycobacteria lack several of the components that are essential in model systems as E
scherichia coli or B acillus subtilis for the formation of the divisome, a ring‐like structure …

The ability of the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis to metabolize steroids like
cholesterol and the roles that these compounds play in the virulence and pathogenesis of …

Mycobacterium bovis causes bovine tuberculosis and is the main organism responsible for
zoonotic tuberculosis in humans. We performed the sequencing, assembly and annotation …