TY - CHAP AU - Yogendra Shah ED - Yogendra Shah Y1 - 2021-09-15 PY - 2021 T1 - Introductory Chapter: Plan to Prevent and Combat against the Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis/Zoonotic Tuberculosis N2 - Tuberculosis (TB), which is caused by the infectious agent Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), is a major global public health problem that infects one third of the world’s population. This book provides an overview of the molecular epidemiology pattern, transmission dynamics, host response, evolution, and pathogenesis mechanisms of TB. Chapters explore such topics as mechanisms associated with increasing trends of drug-resistant TB, the development of anti-mycobacterial drugs, genotyping tools, diagnosis and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection, and more. BT - Molecular Epidemiology Study of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Complex SP - Ch. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.99548 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.99548 SN - 978-1-83968-100-4 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-27 ER -