News tagged with tb bacteria
Researchers validate preclinical effectiveness of TB drug target
In research at SRI International, scientists evaluating new drug targets against tuberculosis (TB) recently validated the preclinical effectiveness of a target that could rapidly eliminate infections and potentially shorten ...
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Tuberculosis bacterium's outer cell wall disarms the body's defense to remain infectious
The bacterium that causes tuberculosis has a unique molecule on its outer cell surface that blocks a key part of the body's defense. New research suggests this represents a novel mechanism in the microbe's evolving efforts ...
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Scientists explain unique activity of TB drug pyrazinamide
Pyrazinamide has been used in combination with other drugs as a first-line treatment for people with tuberculosis (TB) since the 1950s, but exactly how the drug works has not been well understood.
Aug 11, 2011 |
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CDC: New regimen drastically shortens TB treatment
(AP) -- Health officials on Monday celebrated a faster treatment for people who have tuberculosis but aren't infectious, after investigators found a new combination of pills knocks out the disease in three months instead ...
May 16, 2011 |
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New findings on drug tolerance in TB suggest ideas for shorter cures
New findings on how tuberculosis (TB) bacteria develop multi-drug tolerance point to ways TB infections might be cured more quickly.
Mar 03, 2011 |
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Researchers trace source of cocaine-driven TB outbreak
(PhysOrg.com) -- Simon Fraser University researchers are the first to combine the latest techniques of whole bacterial genome analysis with social networking surveys to track down the puzzling origins of a ...
Feb 23, 2011 |
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Elephant spread TB to workers at Tenn. sanctuary
(AP) -- A tuberculosis outbreak among workers at a Tennessee elephant sanctuary in 2009 is being blamed on one of the pachyderms, even though some of the employees didn't have close contact with the animal.
Feb 16, 2011 |
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Spread of TB in prisons increases the incidence of TB in the general population
The risk of tuberculosis (TB) and latent TB (in which the bacteria that cause TB lie dormant but can reactivate later to cause active TB disease) is higher in the prison population than in the general population. And importantly, ...
Dec 21, 2010 |
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A breakthrough in tuberculosis research
Often causing no symptoms in carriers of the disease, worldwide tuberculosis (TB) infects eight to ten million people every year, kills two million, and it is highly contagious as it is spread through coughing and sneezing.
Jul 29, 2010 |
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New avenues for overcoming tuberculosis drug resistance
Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a global health problem, in part due to the exceptional drug resistance displayed by the TB-causing agent, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Beyond even acquired drug resistance, these bacteria are al ...
Apr 27, 2010 |
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Researchers find new clues to TB drug resistance
Two new tuberculosis studies by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers provide good news and bad news about the bacterium that infects nearly a third of the world's population and a disease that kills ...
Mar 30, 2010 |
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Researchers discover two new ways to kill tuberculosis (w/ Video)
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found two novel ways of killing the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB), a disease responsible for an estimated two million deaths each year. ...
Mar 21, 2010 |
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Researchers discover TB disease mechanism and molecule to block it
Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have identified a mechanism used by the tuberculosis bacterium to evade the body's immune system and have identified a compound that blocks the bacterium's ability to survive ...
Feb 15, 2010 |
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Mechanism discovered by which body's cells encourage tuberculosis infection
Scientists have discovered a signaling pathway that tuberculosis bacteria use to coerce disease-fighting cells to switch allegiance and work on their behalf. Epithelial cells line the airways and other surfaces ...
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Scientists take step toward simple and portable tuberculosis tests for developing world
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 ...
Oct 08, 2009 |
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