Tuberculosis

Targeting High-Risk Neighborhoods May Eliminate Tuberculosis

Identifying specific neighborhoods that have a high incidence of tuberculosis followed by testing and treating the residents proved to eliminate those communities’ cases of tuberculosis, according to new research published in the American Journal of Public Health. A latent ...More
2 days ago
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Vitamin D Benefits Breathing in Tuberculosis Patients

Maintaining adequate levels of vitamin D can help people breathe better and may even protect against tuberculosis (TB), according to a recent study accepted for publication in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). The study of ...More
March 26, 2013
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Experts Convene to Report on Progress Toward Tuberculosis Vaccines

At a time of growing global concern about the rising level of drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis in South Africa and worldwide, the world's top TB vaccine experts are meeting this week, the first time this scientific forum has been held in Africa, where they will ...More
March 25, 2013
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World Health Organization Says Funds Needed to Continue Fight Against Tuberculosis

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria says that strains of tuberculosis with resistance to multiple drugs could spread widely and highlight an annual need of at least $1.6 billion in international funding for treatment and ...More
March 21, 2013
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Slide Show: World TB Day 2013

World TB Day, March 24, 2013, is an opportunity to raise awareness about the burden of tuberculosis (TB) worldwide and the status of TB prevention and control efforts. It is also an opportunity to mobilize political and social commitment for further progress. This annual ...More
March 21, 2013
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UNITAID and TB Alliance Call for More Action Against Childhood Tuberculosis

In spite of an estimated 500,000 new annual cases of children with tuberculosis (TB), there are no appropriate medicines for them, UNITAID and the TB Alliance warn. TB, one of the world’s most neglected diseases with almost no new treatments developed in the past 50 years, ...More
March 19, 2013
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Scientists Discover How Deadly Bacteria Trick the Immune System

An outbreak of tuberculosis in the skid row area of downtown Los Angeles may have exposed up to 4,500 individuals to the bacterium that causes the deadly disease and has left federal officials scrambling to intervene. The outbreak is occurring during winter, when homeless ...More
March 1, 2013
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TB Infection Rates Could Turn the Clock Back to the 1930s

Tuberculosis seems set on defying concerted efforts to treat it successfully with powerful drugs, turning the clock back to the 1930s, warn the editors of the journal Thorax in a special themed issue of the journal to mark World TB day on March 24, and published today. ...More
February 12, 2013
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A Novel Pathway for a Mucosal TB Vaccine

A new pathway for improving vaccines against tuberculosis has been discovered by microbiologists at the University at Buffalo in collaboration with researchers at other universities, according to a paper in the journal Mucosal Immunology, published by the Nature group. Lead ...More
February 1, 2013
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Medicinal Toothbrush Tree Yields Antibiotic to Treat TB in New Way

A compound from the South African toothbrush tree inactivates a drug target for tuberculosis in a previously unseen way. Tuberculosis causes more deaths worldwide than any other bacterial disease. At the same time as rates are increasing, resistance strains are emerging ...More
January 14, 2013
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