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Using Sponges To Stop Tuberculosis
June 13, 2005 — Using extracts from a common Chesapeake Bay sponge, Professor Leleng To of Goucher College and Dr. Salman Siddiqi of Becton Dickinson successfully stopped or slowed the growth of a strain of the ... > full story -
Blood-Based TB Test Matches Up To Old Skin Test In Study Among Health Workers In India
June 8, 2005 — A UC Berkeley-led study has found that a new blood-based tuberculosis (TB) test is as useful as the traditional tuberculin skin test in a head-to-head matchup between the two methods of detecting ... > full story -
Two Studies Document Rise Of Superbugs In The Environment
May 9, 2005 — As science gets wiser, so do the bugs. The rates of drug-resistant bacteria infecting patients in the community and in the hospital have been increasing steadily in recent years, according to two new ... > full story -
New Class Of Tuberculosis-Fighting Antibiotics Suggested By Biochemical-Pathway Study
March 29, 2005 — A worldwide health problem, tuberculosis kills more people than any other bacterial infection. The World Health Organization estimates that two billion people are infected with TB, and that two ... > full story -
Protein Discovery Could Unlock The Secret To Better TB Treatment
March 8, 2005 — UCL scientists have found a protein that could unlock the secret to quicker, more effective treatment of TB by waking TB bacteria in the body. Once the TB bacteria are active again, the disease ... > full story -
Abandoned Bones Suggest TB Wiped Out Leprosy In Battle Of Killer Diseases
February 12, 2005 — The spread of tuberculosis may have killed off leprosy in Europe in the Middle Ages, according to research published in the latest issue of the Royal Society Proceedings ... > full story -
Scientists Develop Split Green For Tagging Protein
January 11, 2005 — University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a new protein tagging and detection system based on a process for "splitting" a green fluorescent ... > full story -
New Tuberculosis Antibiotic May Shorten Treatment Time, Fight Drug-Resistant Strains
December 20, 2004 — A new antibiotic shows promise, thus far in mice, for treating tuberculosis much faster than current drugs do, scientists report. Additional evidence indicates that the antibiotic may work against ... > full story -
Risk Of Tuberculosis Doubles In First Year Of HIV Infection
December 19, 2004 — The risk of tuberculosis infection doubles within one year of HIV infection, according to a study published in the Jan. 15 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online. ... > full story -
Antibiotic Rifampicin Shows Promise For Fighting Parkinson's Disease In Laboratory Tests
November 30, 2004 — Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have shown that rifampicin, an antibiotic used to treat leprosy and tuberculosis, can prevent the formation of protein fibrils associated with ... > full story
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