Re: Antifungal Drug Kills Tuberculosis Bug

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antifungal may help treat cancer

<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/uoc--adm062805.php>

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> _http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070312111320.htm_

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> Source: University of Manchester Date: March 12, 2007

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> Antifungal Drug Kills Tuberculosis Bug

> _Science Daily_ (http://www.sciencedaily.com/) †" Scientists

hoping to find

> new treatments for one of the world's most deadly infectious

diseases say

> drugs used to treat common fungal infections may provide the

> answer.Tuberculosis, or TB, is a highly contagious disease of the

lungs that was thought to have

> been virtually eliminated by the 1960s, but is now resurgent and

kills

> nearly two million people worldwide every year. New infections are

occurring at a

> rate of one per second.

> Of equal concern is the dramatic rise in the incidence of new

strains of TB

> that are resistant to traditional antibiotics. As a result, the

World Health

> Organisation, the Bill Gates Foundation and the European Union have

all

> launched initiatives to tackle the problem.

> Now, biologists at The University of Manchester have shown that

chemicals

> called azoles -- the active agent in many antifungal drugs -- kill

the TB

> bacteria, and could be effective in tackling the emerging drug-

resistant

> strains......

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[Guest guest]

Think that one of these days they well be pushing antifungals like

they did antibiotics?

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> _http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070312111320.htm_

> (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070312111320.htm)

>

> Source: University of Manchester Date: March 12, 2007

>

> Antifungal Drug Kills Tuberculosis Bug

> _Science Daily_ (http://www.sciencedaily.com/) †" Scientists

hoping to find

> new treatments for one of the world's most deadly infectious

diseases say

> drugs used to treat common fungal infections may provide the

> answer.Tuberculosis, or TB, is a highly contagious disease of the

lungs that was thought to have

> been virtually eliminated by the 1960s, but is now resurgent and

kills

> nearly two million people worldwide every year. New infections are

occurring at a

> rate of one per second.

> Of equal concern is the dramatic rise in the incidence of new

strains of TB

> that are resistant to traditional antibiotics. As a result, the

World Health

> Organisation, the Bill Gates Foundation and the European Union have

all

> launched initiatives to tackle the problem.

> Now, biologists at The University of Manchester have shown that

chemicals

> called azoles -- the active agent in many antifungal drugs -- kill

the TB

> bacteria, and could be effective in tackling the emerging drug-

resistant

> strains......

>

>

>

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http://www.aol.com.

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