Drug combo delivers knockout punch to dangerous TB strains in lab tests
Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 18:07
in Health & Medicine
Drug-resistant tuberculosis seemed to respond to a combination of two older antibiotics in laboratory tests. The 'clever' strategy used one drug to knock out defence so antibiotic could do kill the bacteria.
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