Low treatment compliance contributes directly to the emergence of multidrug- and extensively drug–resistant (MDR and XDR) strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ... and that evolution of new ...

The fungi show potential to target tuberculosis, offering hope of more effective treatments for a disease which still affects thousands of Americans each year.

These freshwater wetlands harbor abundant species of bacteria in the Mycobacterium genus -- the same genus as the tuberculosis-causing bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In these bogs, fungi ...