Tuberculosis

  • Scientists Find Candidate for New TB Vaccine
    Scientists have discovered a protein secreted by tuberculosis (TB) bacteria that could be a promising new vaccine candidate, they report today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The protein could also be used to improve diagnosis of TB. TB is caused by the ...More
    March 18, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Scientists Searching for Antibiotics to Kill TB
    Scientists are collaborating on a new international research project to identify antibiotics that can kill tuberculosis and fight resistant strains. "We want to accelerate the discovery of new compounds that can be turned into effective drugs," says professor Tony Maxwell ...More
    March 11, 2011
    Posted in News
  • New Findings on Drug Tolerance in TB Suggest Ideas for Quicker Cures
    New findings on how tuberculosis (TB) bacteria develop multi-drug tolerance point to ways TB infections might be cured more quickly. The study will be published April 1 in the journal Cell. The results identify both a mechanism and a potential therapy for drug tolerance ...More
    March 3, 2011
    Posted in News
  • New Diagnostic Tool to Identify Active Tuberculosis Quickly and Effectively
    Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the most pressing public health priorities for the 21st century, with more than one-third of the world's population infected. Active TB disease is a major issue both for the patients who require specific treatment and at a population level, ...More
    February 21, 2011
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  • Efficacy of TB Vaccine is Enhanced
    Nele Festjens and Nico Callewaert of VIB and Ghent University have improved the efficacy of the vaccine for tuberculosis. The new vaccine affords -- as already proven in mice -- better protection against the disease. The development of a new tuberculosis vaccine is a ...More
    February 18, 2011
    Posted in News
  • TB Death Rate in Homeless is Alarmingly High, Study Says
    One in five homeless people with tuberculosis die within a year of their diagnosis, according to a study led by St. Michael's Hospital's Dr. Kamran Khan. And that number remains unchanged over the last decade despite recommendations calling for greater improvements in ...More
    February 16, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Multi-Tasking Protein Provides New Approaches for Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs
    In a paper published online today in PNAS, scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Hamburg, Germany, reveal new insights into the workings of enzymes from a group of bacteria including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes ...More
    February 15, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Homogeneous TB Treatment Ineffective in Children
    The realization of medically treating different children uniquely may start with one of the deadliest diseases in existence: tuberculosis. New findings by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers indicate that the type of medications and the dosage routinely used to treat ...More
    February 10, 2011
    Posted in News
  • NIH, Gates Foundation and Colorado State Team Up to Find New Approach to a TB Vaccine
    A team of U.S. and European researchers have found that a new vaccine strategy tested in mice provides stronger, more long-lasting protection from tuberculosis (TB) infection than the vaccine currently used in humans, known as BCG. Their findings were published online Jan. ...More
    January 25, 2011
    Posted in News
  • More Intensive Methods Needed to Identify TB in HIV-Prone Populations
    Identifying tuberculosis patients in Africa using passive methods is leaving many cases undiagnosed, according to researchers from the Netherlands, Kenya and the United States, who studied case detection methods in HIV-prone western Kenya. Tuberculosis (TB) occurs commonly ...More
    January 14, 2011
    Posted in News
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