Research Article: Metformin Increases Cell Viability and Regulates Pro-Inflammatory Response to Mtb
Introduction:
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), a communicable disease that is a major cause of ill health, high global morbidity and mortality rates and the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. Therapy for drug-susceptible (DS) TB has proven efficient with cure rates of –%. Success rates of DS-TB treatment are however dampened by the extensive - to -month therapy duration, accompanying drug toxicity, emergence of drug-resistant (DR) strains and permanent post-TB…
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