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Stories about: Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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