Source of drug-tolerant tuberculosis possibly behind TB relapses...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Tue, 06/10/2008 - 23:00

(University of Pittsburgh) University of Pittsburgh-led researchers discovered that the primary bacteria behind tuberculosis can grow on surfaces and that drug-tolerant strains flourish in these bacterial communities, the research team recently reported in Molecular Microbiology.

The findings suggest a possible reason why human tuberculosis requires months of intensive antibiotic treatment and indicate a potential cause of the relapses that can nonetheless occur.

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