A new approach towards antibiotic resistant tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection caused by the organism, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and it’s deadly. Not only that, due to the problems with determining the appropriate antibiotic, multiresistant tuberculosis has the potential to become a worldwide epidemic, negating all medical achievements of the last several decades. The good news: a new approach to finding antibiotic-resistant TB could dramatically improve treatment options.