Sentences with phrase «resistant mycobacterium»

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PaMZ could wipe out several resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis — the cause of most cases of TB — which have been spreading through South Africa, India and the countries that made up the former Soviet Union.

Despite being curable with multidrug therapy, leprosy still persists in many developing countries, with more than 200,000 new cases every year and increasing drug - resistant strains of the leprosy bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae, emerging.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria have grown increasingly resistant to tuberculosis drugs.

One previous study found that 17.8 % of drug resistant TB among humans in Morocco was due to M. bovis rather than the classic Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

The aim of this project is to fight against Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis)(TB) and Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), leading to serious diseases which usually require intensive care treatment with a long hospitalization.

TB kills more people than any other infectious disease, and the causative bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics used to treat the infection.