title: Personalized medicine approach in mycobacterial disease.
abstract: Mycobacterial diseases are a group of illnesses that cause a considerable number of deaths throughout the world, regardless of years of public health control efforts. Personalized medicine is a new but rapidly advancing field of healthcare. Personalized medicine in the field of mycobacteriology may be applied in the different levels of management such as prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. A genetic predisposition and a protein dysfunction study are recommended to tailor an individual approach in mycobacterial diseases.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Mehdi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mirsaeidi
keywords: Mycobacterial; NTM; Personalized medicine; TB