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Method To Prevent Liver Damage Induced By Anti-Tuberculosis Treatment?
September 19, 2008 — Anti-tuberculosis treatment is known to cause liver damage in 4 percent to 11 percent of patients mandating to stop the treatment till the liver enzymes come to normal. In ~0.1 percent cases this ... > full story -
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Small Numbers Of Patients With Drug-Resistant TB May Account For High Proportion Of New Infections
September 16, 2008 — Inadequate treatment of antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis can leave patients highly infectious, and small numbers of such patients may drive transmission of the disease in the very health care ... > full story -
Tuberculosis Drug Shows Promise Against Latent Bacteria
September 12, 2008 — A new study has shown that an investigational drug, R207910, is quite effective at killing latent bacteria. This revelation suggests that R207910 may lead to improved and shortened treatments for ... > full story -
Clinical Trial For New Tuberculosis Vaccine
September 11, 2008 — With annually 2 million deaths and 9 million new cases, there are more victims of tuberculosis than of any other infectious disease, apart from AIDS. Worsening the situation, many strains of ... > full story -
Marijuana Ingredients Show Promise In Battling Superbugs
September 8, 2008 — Substances in marijuana show promise for fighting deadly drug-resistant bacterial infections, including so-called "superbugs," without causing the drug's mood-altering effects, scientists in Italy ... > full story -
Energy-Saving Bacteria Resist Antibiotics
September 2, 2008 — Bacteria save energy by producing proteins that moonlight, having different roles at different times, which may also protect the microbes from being killed. The moonlighting activity of one enzyme ... > full story -
Rifamycin Antibiotics Attack Tuberculosis Bacteria With Walls, Not Signals
August 25, 2008 — Amid concerns about the rising number of new tuberculosis cases worldwide, researchers have reexamined and disproved a theory that describes how a potent class of antibiotics kills a deadly form of ... > full story -
Lack Of Tuberculosis Trials In Children Unacceptable, Experts Argue
August 18, 2008 — Ensuring the involvement of children in the evaluation of tuberculosis treatment is critical as we move forward in developing effective responses to active and drug-susceptible tuberculosis, argues a ... > full story -
Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Found In California
August 13, 2008 — In the first statewide study of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) in the United States, California officials have identified 18 cases of the dangerous and difficult-to-treat disease ... > full story -
Synthetic Biology Is Bearing Fruit: Blockers Against Blockers
August 11, 2008 — Synthetic Biology is bearing fruit: the tuberculosis pathogen can be fooled by a widely used food additive. The WHO records around nine million new cases of the disease each year, and about 50 ... > full story
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