News tagged with pulmonary tuberculosis
TB vaccine enters new clinical trials
Medicine & Health / Medications
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Scientists identify gene that may make humans more vulnerable to pulmonary tuberculosis
Oct 10, 2008 |
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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 ...
New test quickly ID's active TB in smear-negative patients
Sep 23, 2009 |
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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 ...
Tuberculosis patients can reduce transmissability by inhaling interferon through a nebulizer
Sep 15, 2009 |
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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 ...
Urine LAM-ELISA poor at diagnosing TB
Aug 28, 2009 |
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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 ...
