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Most Ancient Case Of Tuberculosis Found In 500,000-Year-Old Human; Points To Modern Health Issues
December 7, 2007 — Although most scientists believe tuberculosis emerged only several thousand years ago, new research reveals the most ancient evidence of the disease has been found in a 500,000-year-old human fossil ... > full story -
3D Structure Of A DNA Damage Repair Complex
November 30, 2007 — This is the first study that shows the 3D structure of a molecular complex found in the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis that repairs DNA damage. According to the biochemical data, this reflects a ... > full story -
Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Strain Decoded
November 21, 2007 — The first genome sequence of an extensively drug-resistant strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis linked to more than 50 deaths in a recent TB outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa has been decoded. ... > full story -
HIV-TB Spreads In Africa, Undermines Control Of World's Two Deadliest Infectious Diseases
November 2, 2007 — The largely unnoticed collision of the global epidemics of HIV and tuberculosis has exploded to create a deadly co-epidemic that is rapidly spreading in sub-Saharan Africa. However, health systems ... > full story -
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Tuberculosis Breaches Borders, But Not Public Health
November 1, 2007 — Immigrants from countries with high rates of tuberculosis who move to countries of low TB incidence do not pose a public health threat to native citizens, according to researchers in Norway, who ... > full story -
Promising New TB Drug Given Special Status By US And European Regulators
October 25, 2007 — SQ109, an antimicrobial agent has recently been granted 'orphan drug' status by the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency for development against drug-susceptible and ... > full story -
New Strain Of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis In South Africa Traced To Lack Of Drug Susceptibility Testing
October 22, 2007 — In South Africa, the 2001 implementation of the World Health Organization's antituberculosis program may have inadvertently helped to create a new strain of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis. ... > full story -
Preventing Tuberculosis Reactivation
October 18, 2007 — The researchers' results suggest that anti-TNF therapy is highly likely to lead to many incidents of TB if used in areas where exposure to the TB pathogen is probable. However, they also propose that ... > full story -
Indian Bug Is The Ancestor Of Crohn's Disease Pathogen
October 2, 2007 — A seemingly unknown mycobacterial organism Mycobacterium indicus pranii could be the earliest ancestor of the 'generalist' branch of mycobacterial pathogens. The 'generalist' bacteria infect anything ... > full story -
Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Rises, But New Treatments In The Pipeline
September 24, 2007 — An arsenal of promising new medications, vaccines, and diagnostic tests are moving toward the global battlefield that pits medicine against drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), which is claiming a ... > full story
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