The genus Mycobacterium represents more than 120 species of bacteria including the pathogenic M. tuberculosis, the etiological agent of tuberculosis. The host mounts a robust inflammatory and cell-mediated response to ...

Mycobacterium are important human pathogens and their strength lies in establishing acute infections, latent infections as well as co-existing with other dreadful infectious agents like HIV. The success of mycobacterium ...

Pathogenic mycobacteria are among the most dreadful pathogens known to mankind as one third of the world’s population is latently infected with M. tuberculosis, the causative agent of pulmonary tuberculosis. Host immune ...

The genus mycobacterium has more than 120 species of bacteria; one being M. tuberculosis (Mtb), the etiological agent of tuberculosis (TB). During infection, the host mounts a heightened immune response to contain the ...

The prokaryotic genome, though lacks a membrane bound organelle for its housing, is restricted to only about 25% of the cytoplasmic space called the nucleoid. The dramatic compaction required for the genome to fit in is ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) has evolved as an important clinical pathogen due to its ability to gain multidrug resistance, to enter into latency to persist there and to get reactivated from the latent infection in ...