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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 -
Treatment Outcomes Highlight Dangers Of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
August 6, 2008 — In a retrospective study of 174 tuberculosis patients, patients with extensively-drug-resistant tuberculosis were almost eight times as likely to die as patients with multi-drug resistant ... > full story -
Comprehensive Treatment Of Extensively Drug-Resistant TB Works, Study Finds
August 6, 2008 — XDR-TB has been reported in 49 countries throughout the world. This study shows that a comprehensive, ambulatory management program can cure more than 60 percent of HIV-negative XDR-TB patients in ... > full story -
Certain HIV Treatment Less Effective When Used With Anti-TB Therapy
August 4, 2008 — Patients receiving rifampicin-based anti-tuberculosis therapy are more likely to experience virological failure when starting nevirapine-based antiretroviral therapy, an HIV treatment that is widely ... > full story -
Strategies To Control TB Outdated, Inadequate, Analysis Shows
August 1, 2008 — The standard regimens to treat tuberculosis are inadequate in countries with high rates of multi-drug resistant TB. In countries with high rates of MDR-TB, patients are nearly twice as likely to fail ... > full story -
How Some Bacteria May Steal Iron From Their Human Hosts
July 31, 2008 — While humans obtain iron primarily through the food they eat, bacteria have evolved complex and diverse mechanisms to allow them access to iron. Scientists have discovered that some bacteria are ... > full story -
Potential New Drug Target To Fight Tuberculosis Identified
July 30, 2008 — With antibiotic resistance on the rise, tuberculosis is emerging as a bigger global health threat than ever before. But now, innovative research suggests that Mycobacterium tuberculosis has an as yet ... > full story -
Tuberculosis Presents Major Challenges To HIV Treatment In Developing Countries
July 22, 2008 — Human immunodeficiency virus care and treatment programs in resource-limited settings must aggressively address tuberculosis and the emerging multidrug-resistant TB epidemic to save patient lives and ... > full story -
Populations Of Foreign-Born Persons Living In US At Higher Risk Of TB Identified
July 22, 2008 — The relative yield of finding and treating latent tuberculosis is particularly high among higher-risk groups of foreign-born persons living in the US, such as individuals from most countries of ... > full story -
Diabetes Increases Risk Of Tuberculosis, Studies Show
July 14, 2008 — Searching for research over the past four decades containing data on the relationship between diabetes and TB, researchers identified 13 studies involving more than 1.7 million participants, ... > full story
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