Neoteric Drifts in Tuberculosis-A Global Pandemic: A Review

Mycobacterium tuberculosis has coherently existed with humans for the past centuries resulting in reduced quality of life and high mortality rate.Over years many treatment strategies and plans to eradicate TB globally have been formulated.MTB has wrecked human life and is a cause of great concern and despair in less privileged countries.Rigorous research on antibiotics and vaccines are being conducted to impede the transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.Even after major breakthrough in scientific field mycobacteria has developed mechanism to supersede the harmful effects rendered by antibiotics.Thus, creating a generation of highly adaptable strains referred as multi-drug resistance tuberculosis which has caused great havoc throughout the world.This review will give an overview on tuberculosis and recent trends in combatting this highly infectious pathogen.