Health24: Breakthrough: scientists trace the origins of extreme drug-resistant TB
“…[S]cientists from the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH), the Broad Institute of MIT, and Harvard in the U.S. traced the roots of extensively drug-resistant TB, aka XDR-TB, in [KwaZulu-Natal] to the late 1950s. These new findings, which were published in the journal PLOS Medicine on 29 September 2015, have important implications for the way we understand how XDR strains are spread, as well as for the management and treatment of TB across the world…” (10/2).