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225: The Science of Tuberculosis

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The Resistant Bacteria to Antibiotics

M2berculosis is resistant to antibiotics, a lot of antibiotics. It's probably because if it has weird little cell wall,. so bacteria can have cell, these sort of cell walls made up of peptidoglycan and some other things sometimes. And the issue is bacteria, their cells, we're cells, killing them and killing us. We need something that hits what we want to hit without hitting everything else. So for example, fungi might produce antibiotics to keep bacteria away. Some sort of apparently honey can have antibacterial properties as well. But then so do your hair follicles because they're also quickly, they also are rapid reproducing cells. Same with bone marrow which also produces

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