Directly Observing Therapy: A New View of Drug Tolerance in Tuberculosis
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Drug tolerance in bacteria is widely believed to be due to metabolic changes that accompany growth arrest. A study in this issue of Cell reveals a drug tolerance mechanism in replicating mycobacteria that is induced by residence in macrophages and depends on drug efflux.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Cell
دوره 145 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011