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Structural biology reveals new opportunities to combat tuberculosis

EMBL Hamburg's Wilmanns and Kosinski groups have determined the detailed structure of a bacterial protein complex critical for tuberculosis infection

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Tuberculosis is one of the top ten causes of death worldwide, infecting about one-quarter of the world’s population. Although it is treatable, the rise of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis poses a major threat to global health security, and has been declared by the World Health Organization as a global health emergency. Reduced access to diagnosis and treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to dramatically increase the number of tuberculosis infections. This will set global efforts to tackle the disease back several years.

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