Abstract
Tuberculosis is among the ten diseases that kill the most in the world. Although treatable, resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are becoming a serious threat to public health. In 2019 alone, for example, half a million cases of TB resistant to rifampicin (RR-TB), a drug used in combination with isoniazid, pyrazinamide and ethambutol to treat TB, were reported. Of these, 78% ar…