Tuberculosis is a chronic, contagious infectious disease caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, and represents a major public health problem. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2019, 10 million people contracted tuberculosis and 1.4 million died from it. It is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide, and the leading cause of death due to a single infectious agent. One of the main factors fuelling the TB epidemic is...