Antibiotic combination defeats extensively drug-resistant TB

Friday, February 27, 2009 - 09:37 in Health & Medicine

A combination of two FDA-approved drugs, already approved for fighting other bacterial infections, shows potential for treating extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), the most deadly form of the infection. This finding is reported by scientists from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in the 27 February issue of Science...

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