Shorter treatment found for latent tuberculosis

A cocktail of antibiotics taken for three months works as well as the standard nine-month TB treatment, researchers say. That increases the proportion of people who finish treatment, helping stop the spread of TB.In what is being hailed as the biggest breakthrough since the 1960s in treatment for latent tuberculosis — noninfectious TB without symptoms — researchers said Monday that weekly doses of a cocktail of antibiotics can cure the infection in only three months as effectively as the standard treatment of daily drugs for nine months.

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