**MYCOBACTERIUM - RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT**

#### **Mycobacterium - Research and Development**

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/65613 Edited by Wellman Ribón

#### **Contributors**

Carolina Mehaffy, Luisa Nieto, Mario Bermúdez De León, Katia Peñuelas Urquides, Fabiola Castorena Torres, Beatriz Silva Ramírez, Cita Rosita Sigit Prakoeswa, Parthasarathi Ajitkumar, Prabuddha Gupta, Atul Pradhan, Ahmad Jabir Rahyussalim, Andriansjah Rukmana, Ifran Saleh, Tri Kurniawati, Esther Julián, Estela Noguera-Ortega, Salvador Luis Said-Fernández, Yazmin-Berenice Martínez-Martínez, Herminia-Guadalupe Martínez-Rodríguez, Salvador Said-Fernández, Clemax Sant Anna, Maria De Fatima Pombo March, Rafaela Baroni, Wellman Ribón, Bharti Dave, Dushyant Dudhagara, Olga Voronina, Marina Kunda, Natalia Ryzhova, Ekaterina Aksenova, Andrey Semenov, Natalia Sharapova, Alexandr Gintsburg, Chamila Adikaram, Gabriela Echeverria-Valencia, Clara I Espitia, Susana Flores-Villalva, Olanrewaju Oladimeji, Marcos Catanho, Khalid Hussain Bhat, Imtiyaz Yaseen

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Mycobacterium - Research and Development Edited by Wellman Ribón p. cm. Print ISBN 978-1-78923-210-3 Online ISBN 978-1-78923-211-0 eBook (PDF) ISBN 978-1-83881-250-8
