Drug tolerant Tuberculosis could soon be tracked using genes
A team of researchers from the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School have found genetic foot prints of tuberculosis bacteria that ...
Why HIV patients are more likely to develop tuberculosis
Tuberculosis and HIV -- two of the world's deadliest infectious diseases -- are far worse when they occur together. Now, ...
Janssen Announces U.S. FDA Accelerated Approval for SIRTURO® (bedaquiline) as Part of Combination Therapy to Treat Adolescents with Pulmonary Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ...
Update of WHO guidelines on the programmatic management of drug-resistant TB
8 August 2019 | Geneva - Drug-resistant TB continues to pose formidable challenges due to the complexity of effective treatment ...
The fight against tuberculosis _ archive, 1913
Tuberculosis patients from St. Thomas’ Hospital rest in their beds in the open air by the River Thames, opposite the ...
Scientists find cure for TB strain resistant to current treatment
sanjeri/iStock When she joined a trial of new tuberculosis drugs, the dying young woman weighed just 57 pounds. Stricken with ...
Waking up sleeping bacteria to fight infections
Researchers in the group of Jan Michiels (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology) identified a mechanism of how sleepy bacteria wake ...
Scorpion venom compounds can kill dangerous bacteria
Detail of photograph showing Prof. Richard Zare holding a Diplocentrus melici, a type of scorpion with venom that has healing ...
Researchers identify faster, more effective drug combinations to treat tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is a potentially deadly though curable disease. Each year about 10 million people develop active cases, and 1.6 ...
Drug-resistant tuberculosis reversed in lab
Drug-resistant tuberculosis reversed in lab About 1.5 million people died of tuberculosis (TB) in 2017, making it the most lethal ...
Researchers develop new tuberculosis treatment
Led by researchers at RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland), a team of researchers has developed a new treatment ...
TB: Promising new drugs for old pathogen Mtb
Tuberculosis (TB), an ancient and notoriously difficult disease to treat, has killed millions through the course of human history; and ...