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A chemical compound found in African wormwood could be effective against tuberculosis.
O-methylflavone can kill the mycobacteria that causes tuberculosis in both its active state and its slower, hypoxic state.
Tuberculosis — caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis, or Mtb — is one of the world's leading killers.
Also co-authors on the paper were Scarlet Shell , Maria Natalia Alonso, Junpei Xiao , Juan Hilario Cafiero, Trevor Bush , Melissa Towler and Pamela Weathers , all at Worcester Polytechnic Institute . The National Institutes of Health's National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Disease and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture helped support this work..
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