Progress towards new treatments for tuberculosis

(Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) Boosting the body's own disease-fighting immune pathway could provide answers in the desperate search for new treatments for tuberculosis. Tuberculosis still represents an enormous global disease burden and is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide.The study uncovered how cells infected with tuberculosis bacteria can die, and that using new medicines to enhance particular forms of cell death decreased the severity of the disease in a preclinical model.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news