News tagged with tb bacteria
Scientists take step toward simple and portable tuberculosis tests for developing world
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Two billion people worldwide carry the pathogen that causes tuberculosis (TB), and most of them do not even know they are infected. This is because some 90 percent of people with TB have "latent" infections. They have no ...
Researchers discover new antituberculosis compounds
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Attempts to eradicate tuberculosis (TB) are stymied by the fact that the disease-causing bacteria have a sophisticated mechanism for surviving dormant in infected cells. Now, a team of scientists led by researchers from Weill ...
Inhibitors of Important Tuberculosis Survival Mechanism Identified
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Attempts to eradicate tuberculosis (TB) are stymied by the fact that the disease-causing bacteria have a sophisticated mechanism for surviving dormant in infected cells. Now, a team of scientists ...
Measurements fail to identify TB patients who could benefit from shorter treatment course
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a difficult infection to treat and requires six months of multiple antibiotics to cure it. To combat the TB pandemic, a shorter and simpler drug treatment would be a huge advance since most TB occurs ...
Tijuana injection drug users on collision course for HIV and TB
Apr 15, 2009 |
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A study by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, in collaboration with Mexican researchers and health officials, shows that as many as 67 percent of injection drug users in Tijuana test ...
Doctors call for change in how non-active TB in immigrant children treated
Mar 02, 2009 |
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New guidelines proposed in the March 2009 issue of the journal Pediatrics by researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and Riley Hospital for Children may have a major impact on how U.S. pediatricians and fa ...
