Research reveals new insights into a key antibiotic target in the fight against TB

30 junio 2015

A key process in the bacterium that causes tuberculosis has been unraveled by researchers, potentially paving the way for new antibiotics to fight the disease. TB is one of the world’s top infectious killers, causing 1.5 million deaths every year. The TB bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is estimated to be present in up to a third of the world’s population, although active TB only develops in around one in 10 cases.
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