Albert Einstein College of Medicine Researchers Discover Two New Ways to Kill TB

Albert Einstein -- March 21, 2010 – (BRONX, NY) – Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found two novel ways of killing the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB), a disease responsible for an estimated two million deaths each year. The findings, published in the March 21 online issue of Nature Chemical Biology, could lead to a potent TB therapy that would also prevent resistant TB strains from developing.

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