A team of Auckland University medical researchers have been part of a major tuberculosis breakthrough
A team of Auckland University medical researchers have been part of a major tuberculosis breakthrough
26 October 2019
In the 1960s, drugs were developed to cure the disease - but the disease has now become resistant to those medications.
But Auckland's Professor Bill Denny says a group of new agents has been put together to treat drug resistant tuberculosis.
He says the new drugs have the potential to transform treatment, eliminating the disease in eight to 10 weeks.
He says it's important to attack the drug resistant form, helping to lower the number of people carrying the latent form of the disease.
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