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Stories about: Mycobacterium tuberculosis

New Drug Targets for Tuberculosis Researchers at the Pasteur Institutes in Seoul and Paris and Institute of Pharmacology and Structural Biology (IPBS) in Toulouse found out the tuberculosis causing agent, M. tuberculosis manages to survive into body cells that were supposed to destroy it.Tuberculosis, or TB, is an extremely contagious disease of the ... 10 September 2010 05:01 GMT New TB Drug Destroys Bacteria from the Inside Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) – a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – working with colleagues from the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases in Singapore, managed to devise a new experimental drug, that showed promise in lab tests, when ... 28 November 2008 04:35 GMT Gene Causing Pulmonary Tuberculosis Revealed Tough one third of the world's population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), only 5 to 10 percent of them will ever develop the disease in its active state. Why this happens remains a mystery to this day, but researchers think they may have had a b... 10 October 2008 10:12 GMT