Researchers Untangle Genetics of Drug-Resistant TB

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Published Sep 4, 2013

For years, physicians around the world have watched as strain after strain of the deadly bacteria mycobacterium tuberculosis evolves resistance to drugs. A new method of analyzing whole genome sequences of TB, applied to a massive set of strains of the bacteria collected from clinics around the world, has revealed 39 new genes associated with elevated drug resistance. The results were published Sept. 1, 2013 in Nature Genetics. Learn more at http://hms.harvard.edu/news/global-health/tbs-surprising-family-tree-9-1-13

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