Team finds key to tuberculosis resistance
The cascade of events leading to bacterial infection and the immune response is mostly understood. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the immune response to the bacteria that causes...
View ArticleNew study finds levels of TB in Irish travellers three times that of white...
A recent study by researchers from the School of Medicine in Trinity College Dublin in conjunction with the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) and the Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre...
View ArticleGenetic discovery provides clues to how TB may evade the immune system
The largest genetic study of tuberculosis (TB) susceptibility to date has led to a potentially important new insight into how the pathogen manages to evade the immune system. Published today in the...
View ArticleTuberculosis still raging in Eastern Europe (Update)
About a thousand people still contract tuberculosis daily in Europe and Central Asia, despite an overall decline of the disease, a report by the Europe Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)...
View Article28 people test positive for tuberculosis at Kansas school
More than two dozen cases of tuberculosis have been detected at an eastern Kansas high school after widespread screening, state and county health officials announced Wednesday.
View ArticleTexas hospital TB probe ends with no active cases seen
Health officials say they found no active tuberculosis cases among infants possibly exposed to a TB-infected El Paso hospital worker.
View ArticleIndia needs to do much more to tackle its alarming TB epidemic
Effective tuberculosis control in India needs political will and commitment, backed by sufficient resources, says a senior doctor in The BMJ this week.
View ArticleInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases marks World TB Day with...
To mark World TB Day, March 24, 2015, the International Journal of Infectious Diseases is publishing a Special Issue that will help raise awareness about the burden of tuberculosis and present a...
View ArticleGiant rats sniff out TB in Mozambique
Giant rats may strike fear and disgust into the hearts of homeowners worldwide, but researchers in impoverished Mozambique are improbably turning some of them into heroes.
View ArticleClinical trials of VPM1002 as a tuberculosis vaccine in newborns
The only tuberculosis vaccine currently approved, the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, protects children from the most severe forms of the disease in most cases but does not provide protection...
View ArticleTurning to freshwater sources to fight drug-resistant tuberculosis, other...
The discovery of antibiotics produced by soil fungi and bacteria gave the world life-saving medicine. But new antimicrobials from this resource have become scarce as the threat of drug resistance...
View ArticleNew TB drug offers glimmer of hope in S.Africa
Drug-resistant tuberculosis is a major health challenge across much of Africa, but a new medicine being pioneered in South Africa could be a breakthrough after decades of frustration.
View ArticleFighting tuberculosis using the body's natural anti-microbial processes
A new approach to combatting tuberculosis would take advantage of a complex, natural process called autophagy that the human body uses to recycle nutrients, remove damaged cell components, eliminate...
View ArticleResearchers participate in the design of a future vaccine for tuberculosis
Researchers from BIOCAPS will collaborate with scientists from seven countries to design a future vaccine against one of the most persistent diseases worldwide, an infectious disease that provokes one...
View ArticleNew online tool to predict genetic resistance to tuberculosis drugs
Finding out what drugs can be used to treat a patient with tuberculosis (TB) can be can sped up by days or weeks, thanks to a new free online tool.
View ArticleA simple diagnostic test to detect tuberculosis in humans
Tuberculosis (TB) represents a growing worldwide healthcare burden. Second only to HIV in terms of its global impact, TB infected 8.5 million people and caused 1.4 million deaths in 2011. If these...
View ArticleHow the tuberculosis bacterium tricks the immune system
Scientists at EPFL have discovered how the tuberculosis bacterium can trick the patient's immune cells to lower their defenses.
View ArticleNew hope in the fight against tuberculosis
According to figures of the World Health Organization, some 8.7 million people contracted tuberculosis in 2012 and this disease is fatal for approximately 1.3 million people throughout the world each...
View ArticleCDC: Seeking those exposed to drug-resistant tuberculosis
(HealthDay)—U.S. health authorities are trying to find anyone who may have had contact with a woman who has been diagnosed with a highly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis.
View ArticleMultidrug-resistant TB appears less transmissible in households than...
Some strains of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) may have a lower fitness (be less capable of spreading) than drug-susceptible tuberculosis bacteria, according to a study published this week in...
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