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Research promises better tuberculosis treatment

Lausanne : Switzerland | Sep 17, 2012 at 8:32 AM PDT
Source: SwissInfo
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Global Health Institute are betting on pyridomycin, a compound that was abandoned in the 1950s when the discovery of streptomycin and isoniazid led doctors to believe that control of the epidemic was in sight.   Only a few years later, the bacterium started to develop resistances. FULL ARTICLE AT SwissInfo
 
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