Tuberculosis is both curable and preventable, yet each year, it still kills more people than any other infectious disease. One reason is that current treatments hinge on rifampicin, an antibiotic that ...

Aug. 18, 2006 — -- In a rural, impoverished area of South Africa, a scary outbreak is occurring primarily among AIDS patients -- a type of tuberculosis that is extremely drug resistant. Of 53 ...

Scientists at San Diego State University say they have identified rare genetic markers in Mycobacterium tuberculosis that could improve early detection of drug-resistant strains of the disease, ...

LONDON — Drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading even faster than experts had feared, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday. The rate of TB patients infected with the drug-resistant strain ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Anyone who attended St. Michael’s Catholic Church in the Paradise Hills area of San Diego from Sept. 22 to Dec. 1, 2024, is being warned they could have potentially been ...

Mumbai: Over 1,000 patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis in Mumbai started a new drug combination that reduced the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A rapid sputum-based assay accurately detected resistance to isoniazid, fluoroquinolones, ethionamide, amikacin, ...

Tuberculosis, a disease well-known by many for causing respiratory infections, has been prevalent in many parts of the world for decades. While it is important to focus on curbing the spread of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pregnant women treated with regimens including bedaquiline and/or delamanid had positive treatment outcomes.

An international research team headed by scientists at the University of British Columbia has demonstrated how a novel semi-synthetic compound derived from sanguinarine (SG), an alkaloid extracted ...

UNTIL SARS-CoV-2 emerged, the most destructive pathogen on the planet was Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bug that causes TB. In 2020, according to the latest report from the World Health Organisation ...

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is renewing calls to both public and healthcare professionals to help reverse an upward trend in tuberculosis (TB) cases in the UK. In 2011, TB incidence in ...