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Researchers develop new way to evaluate tuberculosis treatments 18 May, 2021
Gregory Robertson, an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology at CSU, is one of the first authors on the study. He said that the effectiveness of tuberculosis treatments has been judged by studying tissue cultures from infected patients. Photo: John Eisele/CSU Photography
Tuberculosis, a disease caused by the bacterium
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is a serious global health threat. The disease caused an estimated 1.5 million deaths in 2019 and current methods often fail to predict treatment outcomes in patients.
Nature Communications provides an important new basis for comparing the effectiveness of different tuberculosis treatments and accelerating the development of shorter treatment regimens. The research team was led by scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus with Colorado State University’s Mycobacteria Research Laboratories