14 DAY TRIAL // A series of laboratory experiments have revealed that good old vitamin C is fairly efficient in terms of killing drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria.
These experiments were carried out by a team of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University scientists, who now say that vitamin C might one day be added to the list of drugs used to treat TB.
Although vitamin C might not turn out to be a cure for TB, the researchers are fairly confident that it might help shorten current therapy periods.
Said scientists are now looking into the possibility of carrying out a clinical trial aimed at determining whether or not said vitamin could in fact yield any benefits to human patients.
“We don’t know whether vitamin C will work in humans, but we now have a rational basis for doing a clinical trial.”
“It also helps that we know vitamin C is inexpensive, widely available and very safe to use. At the very least, this work shows us a new mechanism that we can exploit to attack TB,” lead researcher William Jacobs stated.