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Mysterious outbreak of bone-eating TB resembles an ancestral form
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Mysterious outbreak of bone-eating TB resembles an ancestral form

by Karl Leif Bates, Duke University Scanning electron micrograph of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which cause TB. Credit: NIAID Tuberculosis is usually encountered as a disease of the lungs, but in 2% of cases in the U.S. it can also be found in the bones. The 9,000-year-old skeletons of some Egyptian mummies show signs of having tuberculosis infection...