The Looming Menace of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis and the Quest for the Elusive Vaccine

Dr  Abhijit Chaudhury

doi:10.58739/jcbs/v06i3.8

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The Looming Menace of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis and the Quest for the Elusive Vaccine

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Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences

DOI: 10.58739/jcbs/v06i3.8

Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 3, Pages: 73-75

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The Looming Menace of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis and the Quest for the Elusive Vaccine

Dr. Abhijit Chaudhury

MD(BHU), DNB, D(ABMM) Professor of Microbiology, SVIMS, Sri Padmavathi Medical College (Women),Tirupati-517507, Andhra Pradesh, India

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Abstract

The malady which took away the life of the protagonist in John Bunyan’s book of 1680 “The life and death of Mr Badman” was con-sumption and it was described as “The captain of all these men of death”. Tuberculosis (TB), which was a major killer in the mediaeval times, still remains a formidable disease to reckon with, causing substantial mortality in the economically less developed countries in the world.