Of tuberculosis and non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections – a comparative analysis of epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment

Gopalaswamy, Radha; Shanmugam, Sivakumar; Mondal, Rajesh; Subbian, Selvakumar

doi:10.1186/s12929-020-00667-6

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Of tuberculosis and non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections – a comparative analysis of epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment

Published in Journal of Biomedical Science • Jun 17, 2020

Authors:

Radha Gopalaswamy

Sivakumar Shanmugam

Rajesh Mondal

Abstract

Pulmonary diseases due to mycobacteria cause significant morbidity and mortality to human health. In addition to tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), recent epidemiological studies have shown the emergence of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) species in causing lung diseas...

Subject

Tuberculosis

Medicine

Immunology

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