Young people are at risk of falling seriously unwell with tuberculosis and spreading the disease. Therefore, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, among others, have mapped key factors that affect the treatment ...
Sep 14, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Tuberculosis preventive treatment completion is higher with three months of rifapentine-isoniazid than six months of isoniazid among patients with HIV receiving antiretroviral therapy, according to a study published ...
Aug 24, 2021
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When Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, infects a person, the body's immune response is critical to how the disease will progress—either helping the body fight the bacterium or exacerbating ...
Jul 29, 2021
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For 70 years, clinicians thought they knew the shape of tuberculosis granulomas in the lungs of patients. Histology—the study of microscopic structures in thin slices of lung tissue in the 1940s and 1950s—showed round ...
Jul 28, 2021
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Neighbors singing from balconies above empty Spanish streets, apartment windows filled with people clapping for carers in the UK, a man running a marathon in his living room in China—people living in small homes became ...
Jul 27, 2021
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Boosting the body's own disease-fighting immune pathway could provide answers in the desperate search for new treatments for tuberculosis.
Jul 12, 2021
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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 ...
Jun 18, 2021
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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 ...
May 28, 2021
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A new study published in Nature Communications provides an important new basis for comparing the effectiveness of different tuberculosis treatments.
May 18, 2021
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis is incredible in that it can survive for decades within its human host. It does this by varying its diet to successfully steal nutrients from the human host including immune cells; it is known to ...
May 12, 2021
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