Focus on Tuberculosis Research
Smithe, Lucy T.![Focus on Tuberculosis Research](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/177/17704021/CHSBZCOP0317704021.jpg)
Tuberculosis, the disease that the World Health Organisation has recently declared a global emergency, was supposedly defeated by antibiotics half a century ago. It has returned in a highly contagious and fatal new form that cannot be treated with conventional drugs. Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), could cause some 10 million deaths over the next decade and is thriving in the overcrowded prisons of the former Soviet Union. The virtual collaps...