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Breakthroughs hailed in childhood TB prevention
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Breakthroughs hailed in childhood TB prevention

by Claudia Caruana and Ruth Douglas, SciDev.Net More funding is needed to combat Koch’s bacillus, the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis. Credit: NIAID, ( CC BY 2.0 ) Taking a common antibiotic could more than half the risk of children becoming sick with multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), according to findings presented this week at a conference...