Vitamin C can kill drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis, shows new study

May 23, 2013    

New York: In an "unexpected" discovery, vitamin C has been found to kill drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis, which could mean existing drugs can be redesigned to combat the disease.Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, New York have determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture.The finding suggests ...

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