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Nature Medicine 13, 290 - 294 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nm0307-290

Challenges in tuberculosis drug research and development

Ann M Ginsberg1 & Melvin Spigelman1

  1. The authors are at the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, New York, New York, USA. e-mail: ann.ginsberg@tballiance.org

The present decade has seen a reawakening of tuberculosis (TB) drug research and development (R&D), spurred on by an urgent need to stem the tide of the disease globally and develop new, more effective treatments against drug-sensitive and resistant strains. As a result, there are now seven products in clinical development and the largest pipeline of early-stage projects and compounds in history.

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