BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that has become endemic worldwide. The causative bacteria (Mtb) is targeted via several exciting drug targets. One newly discovered target is the Fatty Acyl-CoA synthase, which plays a significant ro...
International journal of molecular sciences
Nov 15, 2024
Tuberculosis (TB) caused by is a leading infectious cause of death globally. The treatment of patients becomes much more difficult for the increasingly common multi-drug resistant TB. Topoisomerase I is essential for the viability of and has been v...
Tuberculosis disease (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), is a major global public health problem, resulting in > 1 million deaths each year. Drug resistance (DR), including the multi-drug form (MDR-TB), is challenging control of the dis...
OBJECTIVE: To conduct a systematic review of the computer vision applications that detect, diagnose, or analyse tuberculosis (TB) pathology or bacilli using digitised human lung tissue images either through automatic or semi-automatic methods. We cat...
BACKGROUND: Bacterial small regulatory RNA (sRNA) plays a crucial role in cell metabolism and could be used as a new potential drug target in the treatment of pathogen-induced disease. However, experimental methods for identifying sRNAs still require...
Despite advancements in detection and treatment, tuberculosis (TB), an infectious illness caused by the Mycobacterium TB bacteria, continues to pose a serious threat to world health. The TB diagnosis phase includes a patient's medical history, physic...
Medical & biological engineering & computing
Sep 12, 2024
Deep learning is a transformative force in the medical field and it has made significant progress as a pivotal alternative to conventional manual testing methods. Detection of Tubercle Bacilli in sputum samples is faced with the problems of complex b...
BACKGROUND: Rifampicin resistant tuberculosis remains a global health problem with almost half a million new cases annually. In high-income countries patients empirically start a standardized treatment regimen, followed by an individualized regimen g...
Thymidylate kinase (TMK) is a pivotal enzyme in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), crucial for phosphorylating thymidine monophosphate (dTMP) to thymidine diphosphate (dTDP), thereby playing a critical role in DNA biosynthesis. Dysregulation or inhibi...
Tuberculosis (TB) caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), continues to pose a significant worldwide health threat. The advent of drug-resistant strains of the disease highlights the critical need for novel treatments. The unique ce...
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