Tuberculosis remains a leading cause of worldwide infectious mortality and one of the top ten leading causes of death overall. While advances in public health have contributed to a reduction in tuberculosis cases, the prevalence of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) (MDR-TB) infect...
ORGANISM(S): Mycobacterium smegmatis (strain ATCC 700084 / mc(2)155)