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Bioscience-Medicine

'The bugs are winning' — Researchers are fighting drug-resistant tuberculosis

Bonnie Petrie

The antibiotics that only 80 years ago turned TB from a voracious killer of an estimated 1 billion people to a treatable disease just don’t work anymore.