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Nature 443, 131 (14 September 2006) | doi:10.1038/443131b; Published online 13 September 2006

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Extreme TB strain threatens HIV victims worldwide

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South Africa outbreak may prove impossible to contain.

An outbreak of virulent and very drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africans with HIV is horrifying health professionals and prompting the usually slow-and-steady field of tuberculosis medicine into emergency action. "This is the nightmare scenario of HIV-fuelled drug resistance," says Paul Nunn of the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Stop TB Partnership.