Urgent TB Drug Development Called For By Doctors Without Borders

A new approach to overcoming the bottlenecks in the search for TB drugsEarly stage drug discovery is a key bottleneck in the pipeline to find novel drugs for tuberculosis, say Martina Casenghi (MSF) and colleagues.The lack of candidate compounds is “cause for alarm,” they say, given the global emergence of strains of TB that are resistant to current TB drugs. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses on November 6th, 2007