Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Undiagnosed and untreated disease identified in rural South Africa

A comprehensive health-screening program in rural northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, has found a high burden of undiagnosed or poorly controlled non-communicable diseases, according to a study published in The Lancet Global ...

Medical research

Active tuberculosis case-finding in Vietnam

Studying the implementation of public health interventions typically involves the identification of "facilitators" and "barriers." In the case of active tuberculosis case-finding (also referred to as community-based tuberculosis ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Tailor-made therapy of multi-resistant tuberculosis

Globally, tuberculosis is the most common bacterial infectious disease leading to death. The pathogen causing tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has a number of peculiarities. One is that it is growing very slowly. ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

New WHO handbook on systematic screening for active tuberculosis

New World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and handbook on systematic screening for active tuberculosis were published in March 2021. The handbook cites two studies from Ph.D. students Olivia Biermann's doctoral thesis, ...

Medications

Anti-tuberculosis drug can be safely dosed even higher

A considerably higher dose of the anti-tuberculosis drug rifampicin is safe and can also lead to a shorter treatment for tuberculosis and less resistance. This is what researchers from Radboud university medical center in ...

Vaccination

Researchers test a new TB vaccine

A clinical pharmacologist from RUDN University together with his colleagues from Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology completed the second stage of a clinical trial of a new TB vaccine that was conducted ...

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