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TB vaccine enters new clinical trials

TB vaccine enters new clinical trials

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s leading candidate for a tuberculosis vaccine, developed at the University of Oxford, is to enter Phase IIb proof-of-concept clinical trials, making it the first TB candidate vaccine ...


Tuberculosis patients can reduce transmissability by inhaling interferon through a nebulizer

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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 ...


New test quickly ID's active TB in smear-negative patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Active tuberculosis can be rapidly identified in patients with negative sputum tests by a new method, according to European researchers. Active tuberculosis (TB) is the seventh-leading cause of death worldwide, and while ...


Urine LAM-ELISA poor at diagnosing TB

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Urine LAM-ELISA does not appear to be useful as an independent diagnostic test for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). A trial of the new diagnostic, described in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases found that it was ...


Scientists identify gene that may make humans more vulnerable to pulmonary tuberculosis

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers from the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and its collaborators have now identified for the first time a new gene that may confer susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis. Their findings, published October ...