Treatment of Tuberculosis (TB)

Medium: illustrator, photoshop
Audience: media, public, researchers
Purpose: This illustration is the first in a series that demonstrates drug effectiveness in treating TB: Tuberculosis, which results from an infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, can usually be cured with a combination of first-line drugs taken for several months. Shown here are the four drugs in the standard regimen of first-line drugs and their modes of action. Also shown are the dates these four drugs were discovered—all more than 40 years ago.
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