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Imaging Technology May Speed Up Identification of New Tuberculosis Drugs (1 of 2)

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Imaging Technology May Speed Up Identification of New Tuberculosis Drugs (1 of 2)

image: This is a representative PET/CT of a human subject immediately before receiving LZD therapy (top, left) and after 6 months of LZD therapy (top, right). Representative PET/CT of a cynomolgus macaque immediately before receiving LZD therapy (bottom, left) and after 2 months of LZD therapy (bottom, right). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 3 2014 issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by R.Y. Chen at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, and colleagues was titled, "PET/CT imaging correlates with treatment outcome in patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis." view more 

Credit: [Credit: JoAnne Flynn, Teresa Coleman, Clifton Barry III]


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