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carbocation on Jan 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Totally drug-resistant TB emerges in India

People have been trying to use mycobacteriophages to treat TB since the 90s (at least) with no success: http://tbevidence.org/tbevidence_old_site_files/documents/re...

In contrast, vaccines for TB have made actual progress in animal studies: http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v17/n10/full/nm.2420.html

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