Guest guest Posted February 2, 2006 Report Posted February 2, 2006 > Mitchisons paper " The search for new sterilizing anti-tuberculosis > drugs [not free online] " has tons of info. In active TB, 99%+ of the > Mtb are replicating like hell, and with normal treatment on > nonresistant strains you get a tenfold reduction in bacterial load > every 2 days, early on. Its actually more like a log a day, not a log every two days. And the slaughter continues at that average rate for many days. Thing is, these are probably sputum bacteria counts. The sputum count may not be a perfect reflection of the total bacterial population. In active TB, tho, it may be pretty close. Quote
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