THE University of Queensland has announced that a team of its students from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences TB research under head researcher Dr Nick West have discovered five or six compounds that inhibited growth in a harmless bacterium related to TB.
"There has not been a new general use anti-TB drug for 50 years," West said.
"This was genuine research in which all the students were involved and it does appear we have identified some very interesting compounds."
TB kills around two million people each year while the organism, mycobacterium tuberculosis, currently infects up to one third of the world's population.
With growing resistance to antibiotics currently used, the discovery of new options may prove critically important, a spokesperson said.
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