Source Of Drug-Tolerant Tuberculosis Possibly Behind TB Relapses, Intensity Of Treatment

University of Pittsburgh-led researchers discovered that the primary bacteria behind tuberculosis can grow on surfaces and that drug-tolerant strains flourish in these bacterial communities, the research team recently reported in Molecular Microbiology. The findings suggest a possible reason why human tuberculosis (TB) requires months of intensive antibiotic treatment and indicate a potential cause of the relapses that can nonetheless occur.

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Filed under: Respiratory on June 19th, 2008