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A chemical compound found in African wormwood could be effective against tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis -- caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis, or Mtb -- is one of the world's leading killers among infectious diseases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .
There are about 10 million cases a year globally, with approximately 1.5 million being fatal.
Scarlet Shell , Maria Natalia Alonso, Junpei Xiao , Juan Hilario Cafiero, Trevor Bush , Melissa Towler and Pamela Weathers also co-authors.
The National Institutes of Health's National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Disease helped support this work.
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