Amid relating to about the rising number of new tuberculosis cases worldwide, researchers led by Rockefeller University's Seth A. Darst have reexamined and disproved a theory that describes how a potent class of antibiotics kills a deadly form of bacteria. The findings, which will appear in this week's online issue of the annals of the subject Academy of Sciences, not only bring scientists closer to sympathetic how these antibiotics work but also how the cocci become resistant to their effects.

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