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TB Vaccine Candidate Shows Early Promise

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University report in the September 4 online edition of Nature Medicine that they have developed a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate that proved both potent and safe in animal studies. According to the World ...More
September 5, 2011
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Research Identifies Co-Infection That Complicates TB Treatment

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major threat to global health, taking the lives of more than a million people worldwide each year. Its greatest impact is often in the most impoverished places on earth, where patients frequently suffer from multiple chronic illnesses at the same ...More
August 18, 2011
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New Disease Modeling Grants Target Dengue, TB, Other Infections

Dengue fever, tuberculosis and H1N1 influenza are tough competitors to face in a fight. Each can infect large populations quickly, making public health responses difficult to target and implement in time. Bacteria and viruses have sneezes, coughs and rapidly replicating DNA ...More
August 15, 2011
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Scientists Explain Unique Activity of TB Drug Pyrazinamide

Pyrazinamide has been used in combination with other drugs as a first-line treatment for people with tuberculosis (TB) since the 1950s, but exactly how the drug works has not been well understood. Now, researchers have discovered a key reason why the drug effectively ...More
August 11, 2011
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Based on Data, WHO Advises Against Use of Blood Antibody Test for Active TB

Commercial blood serum antibody tests—widely used in India and other developing countries to diagnose active tuberculosis—are not accurate or cost-effective, according to an analysis by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the University of ...More
August 10, 2011
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Fast, Inexpensive Urine Test for TB on the Horizon

Scientists are reporting an advance toward a fast, inexpensive urine test to detect and monitor the effectiveness of treatment for tuberculosis (TB), which is on a rampage in the developing world. Their study appears in the American Chemical Society (ACS)'s journal ...More
August 3, 2011
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Are Some Individuals Predisposed to Tuberculosis?

Are you genetically predisposed to tuberculosis? Scientists may now be able to answer this question and doctors may be able to adjust their therapeutic approach based on what they learn. That's because new research presented in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology suggests that ...More
August 1, 2011
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WHO Warns Against Use of Inaccurate Blood Tests for Active Tuberculosis

The use of currently available commercial blood (serological) tests to diagnose active tuberculosis (TB) often leads to misdiagnosis, mistreatment and potential harm to public health, says the World Health Organization (WHO) in a policy recommendation issued today. WHO is ...More
July 20, 2011
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Nurses to Play Central Role in Managing TB Syndemic

Jason E. Farley, PhD, MPH, CRNP, knows the dangers inherent to an increasingly common and hazardous syndemic in South Africa: HIV and drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). More problematic than a co-morbidity, a syndemic refers to two or more co-occurring epidemics that ...More
July 8, 2011
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Combination Therapy as Good as Old Regimen to Prevent Full Blown TB in People With and Without HIV

Johns Hopkins and South African scientists have further compelling evidence that new, simpler and shorter treatments with antibiotic drugs could dramatically help prevent tens of millions of people worldwide already infected with the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis, ...More
July 6, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

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