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Published online 15 July 1999 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news990715-4
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New tactic for tuberculosis treatment
Despite the fact that we have a vaccine and an antibacterial treatment, Mycobacterium tuberculosis - the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB) - continues to infect a third to a half of the world's population. Whereas most people who carry the bacterium do not get sick, three million people still die from the disease each year.
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