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Common Vitamin And Other Micronutrient Supplements Reduce Risks Of TB Recurrence, Study Suggests
April 25, 2008 — New findings show a link between micronutrient supplementation and reduced risk of recurrence during tuberculosis chemotherapy, according to a new ... > full story -
Research Priorities To Fight Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Described
April 22, 2008 — Tuberculosis has long been one of the world's great killers. Now, forms of drug-resistant TB -- multi-drug (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) -- are occurring at an ominous and accelerating ... > full story -
Better And Faster: Distinguishing Non-TB Pulmonary Disease From TB
April 1, 2008 — A diagnostic kit shows new promise for distinguishing between tuberculosis and its infections from disease caused by related mycobacteria family, which mimic TB and other lung disease in symptoms but ... > full story -
Smear Campaign: Faster Detection Of Multidrug-Resistant TB For Public Health
April 1, 2008 — There is a new tool in the arsenal to fight multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a rapid diagnostic test that can function in high-burden settings such as public health clinics. MDR-TB is increasingly ... > full story -
Survival Of The Fattest: TB Accumulates Fat To Survive, And To Spread
March 31, 2008 — Medical scientists have made an important discovery on TB. They have identified for the first time that the TB bug lays down body fat that may help it survive passing from one person to another and, ... > full story -
Running Out Of Treatments: The Problem Superbugs Resistant To Everything
March 31, 2008 — Doctors are running out of treatments for today's trauma victims and critically ill patients because of infections due to drug resistant microbes -- even after resorting to using medicines thrown out ... > full story -
Complexities Of Genetic Susceptibility To Tuberculosis Revealed
March 28, 2008 — Researchers working in Vietnam have identified a genetic variant that predisposes people to developing a lethal form of tuberculosis, tuberculous meningitis, if they are infected with a strain of TB ... > full story -
Organism That Causes Buruli Ulcer Has Been Isolated And Characterized
March 25, 2008 — Scientists have for the first time isolated from the environment and fully characterized the organism that causes Buruli ulcer. The study lends support to the idea that the organism, Mycobacterium ... > full story -
Tuberculosis Bacterium Is Double-Protected, 3-D Images Show
March 19, 2008 — The first 3-D images that disclose a double membrane surrounding mycobacteria have been recorded, ending a long scientific debate about the mycobacterial outer membrane and opening new pathways to ... > full story -
New Chemical Can Kill Latent Tuberculosis Bacteria, Study Shows
March 14, 2008 — Success in the laboratory suggests that a new compound can point the way to preventing active tuberculosis in people infected with the latent form of the bacterium. A drug with such properties could ... > full story
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