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Innovative Drug Therapies Could Cure TB

6 March 2017

New Scientist has recently reported two new drug therapies may be able to cure all forms of tuberculosis.  Preliminary data for the new treatments, BPaMZ and BPaL, suggest they could make treating TB much simpler and more effective.

In studies Professor Tim McHugh, a member of the TB Alliance who participated in the study, and his collaborators discovered that the two new therapies reduced treatment times, even in those with drug resistant strains.

Read the full article in New Scientist