Source Of Drug-tolerant Tuberculosis Possibly Behind TB Relapses, Intensity Of Treatment
Date: 14.6.2008
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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