Why #Tuberculosis Is So Hard to Cure - ScienceNOW
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When microbes divide, you usually get more of the same: A cell splits up and creates two identical copies of itself. But a new study shows that’s not true for mycobacteria, which cause tuberculosis (#TB) in humans—and that may explain why the disease is so difficult to treat. (...)
“It is incredible that we are finding such basic things out only now,” says immunologist Sarah Fortune of at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, the paper’s lead author. “But it reflects the fact that mycobacteria are relatively understudied.”