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Nature Medicine 13, 279 - 280 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nm0307-279

The open book of infectious diseases

Christopher M Sassetti1 & Eric J Rubin2

  1. Christopher M. Sassetti is in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. e-mail: christopher.sassetti@umassmed.edu
  2. Eric J. Rubin is in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. e-mail: erubin@hsph.harvard.edu


New classes of chemical compounds along with more efficient methods to identify drug targets have produced exciting developments in antituberculous antibiotics. Will the new drugs now entering clinical trials have an impact on treatment?


Poor William Stewart. This former US Surgeon General is unfairly credited with stating in 1967 that it was "time to close the book on infectious disease.

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