Searching in Soil, Scientists Find a New Way to Combat Tuberculosis

ENN
Nov 1, 2018, 4:09 pm95 pts
For decades, doctors have been using antibiotics to fight tuberculosis (TB). And consistently, the microbe responsible for the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has been fighting back. When confronted with current drugs, such as the antibiotic rifamycin, the bacterium often mutates in ways that make it…

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