Physiology of antibiotics lethality in Mycobacteria

• Main Author: Jin, Frances Xin Er
• Other Authors: Kevin Pethe
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Microbiology::Drug Resistance
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/67197
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The increasing prevalence and spread of drug-resistant strains of M.tuberculosis has resulted in the rise of MDR-TB and XDR-TB cases around the world. This necessitates the need for a better understanding of current bactericidal antibiotics mode of action so as to increase efficacy of current treatm...