SUNY Morrisville Contemporary Chemistry

Realizing the importance of environmentally friendly waste management is crucial in every industry.  We have a limited amount of resources, and, combine with a growing population, the significance of sustainable use has become increasingly critical to society.

Figure 1 Tuberculosis (TB) is a well-known human disease caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis (mtb); mtb is a successful intracellular pathogen that persists within host phagocytes in which they can survive and remain in the dormant stage in macrophages and interfere with the host immune system to avoid elimination by the effector immune cells. TB is considered a major infectious disease even though there have been many advances in treatment and management. Tuberculosis is a topic that I am fascinated in because I will be in the medical field very soon and it is interesting to see medicine making such advances. Tuberculosis can be quickly treated over a period of six months with a multidrug regimen of first line drugs, but this strategy fails to remain effective for various reasons. One of the main reasons is due to patient noncompliance because patients do not have the desire to continue treatment for so long, and eventually become discouraged. There are also problems such as i