Case Study
The Mystery Of Persistence - Agilent Helps Investigators Search For Ways To Beat Tuberculosis
Adrie JC Steyn, PhD Investigator, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), Durban, South Africa Professor of Microbiology, University of Alabama (UAB), Birmingham, USA Every 15 seconds, someone dies from tuberculosis, or TB, as it is commonly known. “Way back in the 1950s, when TB drugs were discovered, we thought TB was going to be cured,” says Adrie Steyn. “Now we know that’s not the case. TB has not been cured.” Tuberculosis has become re