Scientists Develop Animal Model for TB-Related Blindness

Friday, December 16, 2011 - 09:31 in Health & Medicine

Working with guinea pigs, tuberculosis experts at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere have closely mimicked how active but untreated cases of the underlying lung infection lead to permanent eye damage and blindness in people.

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