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            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
            <journal-title-group>
                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
            </publisher>
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            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.17.4.04</article-id>
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                <article-title>Novel Therapeutics: A Nemesis for Biofilm-forming Mycobacterium spp.</article-title>
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				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Pandey</surname>
                        <given-names>Niharika</given-names>
                    </name>
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						<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Ahmad</surname>
                        <given-names>Firoz</given-names>
                    </name>
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                </contrib>
				
				
				
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Singh</surname>
                        <given-names>Kratika</given-names>
                    </name>
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                </contrib>
				
				
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Pandey</surname>
                        <given-names>Pranshu</given-names>
                    </name>
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				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Sharma</surname>
                        <given-names>Rolee</given-names>
                    </name>
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          <aff id="aff-1">Department of Biosciences, Integral University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.</aff>
			 <aff id="aff-2">Department of Microbiology, Maharshi Devraha Baba Autonomous State Medical College, Deoria, Uttar Pradesh, India</aff>
			  <aff id="aff-3">Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, CSJM University, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.</aff>
			 			
			
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2023-10-13">
                <day>13</day>
				<month>10</month>
                <year>2023</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>17</volume>
            <issue>4</issue>
            <fpage>2010</fpage>
            <lpage>2023</lpage>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2023 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2023</copyright-year>
                <license license-type="open-access"
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                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.<uri 
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            <self-uri xlink:href="https://microbiologyjournal.org/novel-therapeutics-a-nemesis-for-biofilm-forming-mycobacterium-spp/"/>
            <abstract>
                <p>Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease that is a significant cause of illness worldwide and has been declared one of the top ten causes of mortality across the world. It is well known that bacteria within biofilms exhibit much higher drug resistance than individual cells. Biofilms constitute a significant threat in the clinical environment by acting as reservoirs of multidrug-resistant bacteria. Thus, the formation of biofilms has been postulated to further aid in drug insensitivity and bacterial persistence within host tissues. The rapid increase in drug resistance in Mycobacteria poses a significant challenge to TB eradication and needs to be addressed soon. In this review, we have attempted to frame a general overview of mycobacterial pathogenesis, the role of biofilm formation in enhancing its shelf life, and some natural compounds and nanoparticles as emerging novel therapeutics reported to inhibit biofilm formation in mycobacteria. Therefore, we present some recent advances which might have potential applications in new treatment regimens for Tuberculosis.</p>
		</abstract>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Biofilm</kwd>
        <kwd>Mycobacteria</kwd>
		<kwd>Therapeutics</kwd>
		<kwd>Tuberculosis</kwd>
        
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