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Older antibiotic gains new respect as potent treatment for tuberculosis
12-17-2007 · EurekAlert!It has no current market, not even a prescription price. Its makers stopped commercial production years ago, because demand was so low. But an antibiotic long abandoned as a weak, low-dose treatment for tuberculosis may have found renewed purpose, this time as a potent, high-dose fighter against the most common and actively contagious form of the lung disease.
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