Mycobacterial biofilms: A therapeutic target against bacterial persistence and generation of antibiotic resistance
Ashirbad Sarangi, Manisha Singh, B. S. Das, Sristi Rajput, Samreen Fatima, Debapriya Bhattacharya
Heliyon · 2024-05
Abstract
We also discuss methods of targeting biofilms to achieve sterile eradication of the mycobacteria and prevent its reactivation by achieving adequate immune responses.
MeSH terms
- Tuberculosis
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Antibiotics
- Drug resistance
- Drug
- Antibiotic resistance
- Immune system
- Drug tolerance
- Disease
- Biofilm
- Multidrug tolerance
- Biology
- Infectious disease (medical specialty)
- Medicine
- Immunology
- Intensive care medicine
- Microbiology