TechNOW podcast: Breathable treatment for drug-resistant TB

COVID isn’t the only pandemic threat we face. The infectious disease that killed the most people in 2018 wasn’t malaria or HIV: it was tuberculosis. Because of antibiotic resistance, a growing number of TB infections can’t be cured by current methods. Rising fever, chest-pain, coughing up blood – without new treatments, this ancient sickness could become a future crisis. But what if we could treat antibiotic resistant TB with a new drug delivered straight into the lungs by an asthma-puffer style device? Thanks to new technology developed by Associate Professor Charlotte Conn, her team at RMIT, and their collaborators in India, this dream cure could become a reality. TechNOW is a podcast about Australian innovations that are shaping the future, thanks to the Global Connections fund – a project run by the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering and supported by the Australian Government.

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TechNOW podcast: Breathable treatment for drug-resistant TB is an episode from Academy of Technology and Engineering by Academy of Technology and Engineering.

This episode is 00:22:03 long.

This episode was published on Oct 29, 2021.

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