Editorial: New Approaches Against Drug-Resistant M. tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is the most devastating infectious disease worldwide, killing 1.4 million people each year (World Health Organization [WHO], 2020). Treatment regimens are lengthy and cause considerable adverse effects, leading to poor patient compliance, as well as high costs and economic burden worldwide. Moreover, resistance to newly approved antimicrobials for TB develops quickly This, together with the widespread occurrence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) drug-resistant strains, necessitates discovery of novel and innovative drugs that will shorten the duration of TB treatments and/or be less toxic to the human host.