New Approach for Tuberculosis Treatment

Consumption was one of the worst known diseases of the 18th century. Thanks to medical advances, the number of deaths from this lung disease - tuberculosis - has declined significantly. Efforts to eradicate the disease in the 1950s and 1960s resulted in a wide range of new drugs entering the market. And yet 1.4 million people still continue to die each year from tuberculosis. Multidrug-resistant strains of the disease-causing pathogen are especially ...