TB rivals Covid-19 as the biggest infectious disease killer of humans, claiming millions of lives each year. Now, ground-breaking research from the Universities of Warwick and Toulouse has identified a new method to help tackle this global issue.

- Tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of death from a single infectious agent in the world, but the nutrients that the pathogen uses to survive in the body is poorly understood
- The bacteria that cause tuberculosis need a sugar called trehalose to survive and cause infection
- The molecular basis of how Mycobacterium tuberculosis uses and transports trehalose has been discovered by researchers from the University of Warwick
- This ignites new opportunities to develop new drugs and diagnostics targeted against TB

An enzyme structure discovery made by scientists at the University of Warwick could help to eradicate tuberculosis (TB).

Tuberculosis, and other life-threatening microbial diseases, could be more effectively tackled with future drugs, thanks to new research into an old antibiotic by the University of Warwick and The Francis Crick Institute.

A new treatment for tuberculosis (TB) is set to be developed using compounds derived from bacteria that live in soil -- according an international collaboration of researchers, including the University of Warwick.