Tb Or Not Tb?

[Moontanman]

TB or not TB?

 

 

 

 

Bill Jacobs’s laboratory at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx sits in front of what was once a 500-bed tuberculosis sanitarium. For Jacobs, the now-decrepit facility serves as both a reminder of the past and a warning of what could happen if effective weapons against a wave of new drug-resistant strains of TB aren’t developed soon. “We’re basically back to where we were before drugs,” he says.

 

 

 

Read more: TB or not TB? - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/57640/#ixzz10TLBEpVV