New Drug Targets May Fight Tuberculosis and Other Bacterial Infections in Novel Way

NEW YORK (Dec. 27, 2007) — Over the course of the 20th Century, doctors waged war against infectious bacterial illness with the best new weapon they had: antibiotics. But the emergence of dangerous, multi-drug resistant strains of tuberculosis and other killer infections means that in the 21st century antibiotics are losing ground against bacterial disease.

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