Since the activity of drugs against Mycobacterium tuberculosis grown in microbiological culture can differ from their activity against bacteria present in infected tissues, compounds with optimal activity against in vivo phenotypes may be overlooked in drug-discovery programmes that rely on in vitro screens. The authors have investigated the use of an ex vivo cell-culture model to assess the action of drugs on M. tuberculosis in an environment resembling that encountered during infection.
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