News tagged with bovine tuberculosis


Bovine tuberculosis in wildlife threatens endangered lynx and cattle health

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created Jul 23, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In an epidemiological survey of Spain's Dońana National Park, the findings of which are published on July 23 in the journal PLoS ONE, Christian Gortázar and colleagues studied the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis (bovin ...





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Tuberculosis treatment may be shortened

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

According to Dutch researcher Hanneke Later-Nijland, it may be possible to shorten the duration of treatment for tuberculosis. Due to the long duration of treatment, not every patient sees it through. Partly because of this, ...


Earliest known human TB found in 9,000 year-old skeletons

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created Oct 15, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 1

The discovery of the earliest known cases of human tuberculosis (TB) in bones found submerged off the coast of Israel shows that the disease is 3000 years older than previously thought. Direct examination of this ancient ...


Tuberculosis treatment may be shortened

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created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

According to Dutch researcher Hanneke Later-Nijland, it may be possible to shorten the duration of treatment for tuberculosis. Due to the long duration of treatment, not every patient sees it through. Partly because of this, ...


New discovery gives tuberculosis vaccine a shot in the arm

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created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new article appearing in the March 2009 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology may lead to improvements in the efficacy of the current tuberculosis vaccine. Specifically, a team of Italian researchers discovered a new ...


Coming Soon: Tuberculosis Detection with a Chip?

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many of the new techniques based on nanotechnology that have been developed for faster and more sensitive detection of pathogens fail in day-to-day clinical use because they require complex sample preparation ...


Unexpected discovery can open a new chapter in the fight against tuberculosis

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created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A close relative of the microorganism that causes tuberculosis in humans has been found to form spores. This is a sensational finding because researchers have long been convinced that these kinds of bacteria-the mycobacteria-were ...


Tuberculosis: On the path to prevention

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Why do some people who are exposed to tuberculosis not become infected or develop the disease? Dr. Erwin Schurr and his team at the Research Institute from the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), in collaboration with ...


Slow-growing TB bacteria point the way to new drug development

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created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The discovery of a large number of slow-growing Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which cause tuberculosis (TB), in the lungs of TB patients could be an important step forward in the design of new anti-TB drugs.


Tuberculosis patients can reduce transmissability by inhaling interferon through a nebulizer

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created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study published in the September 15, 2009, issue of PLoS ONE found that patients with cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis receiving anti-TB medications supplemented with nebulized interferon-gamma have fewer bacilli in the ...


Discovery of tuberculosis bacterium enzyme paves way for new TB drugs

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A team of University of Maryland scientists has paved the way for the development of new drug therapies to combat active and asymptomatic (latent) tuberculosis infections by characterizing the unique structure and mechanism ...



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