Scientists gain new understanding of latent tuberculosis
Scientists at the Forsyth have gained new insight on how Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global epidemic. Although drugs have been available to fight TB for 50 years, the disease still infects nearly 2.2 billion people worldwide ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 30, 2013 |
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Team finds molecule that polices TB lung infection, could lead to vaccine
The presence of a certain molecule allows the immune system to effectively police tuberculosis (TB) of the lungs and prevent it from turning into an active and deadly infection, according to a new study led by researchers ...
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Jan 02, 2013 |
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Vaccination reduces the risk of unvaccinated badger cubs testing tuberculosis positive
New evidence from a four-year field study has shown that BCG vaccination reduces the risk of tuberculosis infection in unvaccinated badger cubs in vaccinated groups, as well as in badgers that received the vaccine.
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Dec 12, 2012 |
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South Africa makes progress in HIV/AIDS fight
(AP)—In the early 90s when South Africa's Themba Lethu clinic could only treat HIV/AIDS patients for opportunistic diseases, many would come in on wheelchairs and keep coming to the health center until ...
HIV & AIDS
Dec 01, 2012 |
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Mass spectrometry helps researchers 'watch' how antibiotics attack tuberculosis bacteria inside cells
Weill Cornell Medical College researchers report that mass spectrometry, a tool currently used to detect and measure proteins and lipids, can also now allow biologists to "see" for the first time exactly how drugs work inside ...
Medical research
Nov 01, 2012 |
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Rats recruited to hunt for TB in Mozambique
A swarm of trained rats is on its way to Mozambique to help the country's over-stretched health system detect tuberculosis in patients, officials said Friday.
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Oct 12, 2012 |
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High doses of Vitamin D help tuberculosis patients recover more quickly
For decades before antibiotics became generally available, sunshine was used to treat tuberculosis, with patients often being sent to Swiss clinics to soak up the sun's healing rays. Now, for the first time scientists have ...
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Sep 03, 2012 |
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Dartmouth medical research closes in on new tuberculosis vaccine
Tuberculosis (TB) is second only to HIV/AIDS as the greatest killer worldwide attributable to a single infectious agent, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). With 8.8 million cases in 2010 and 95 percent of TB ...
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Aug 23, 2012 |
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Research suggests why bovine TB continues to spread
The failure of the current bovine tuberculosis (TB) eradication programme could be partly due to a parasitic worm that hinders the tests used to diagnose TB in cows, according to new research published this week.
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May 22, 2012 |
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The link between TB and a gene mutation that causes lung cancer
Tuberculosis (TB) has been suspected to increase a person's risk of lung cancer because the pulmonary inflammation and fibrosis can induce genetic damage. However, direct evidence of specific genetic changes and the disease ...
Cancer
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Discordance among commercially-available diagnostics for latent TB infection
In populations with a low prevalence of tuberculosis (TB), the majority of positives with the three tests commercially available in the U.S for the diagnosis of TB are false positives, according to a new study.
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Dec 09, 2011 |
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Vaccine targeting latent TB enters clinical testing
Statens Serum Institut and Aeras today announce the initiation of the first Phase I clinical trial of a new candidate TB vaccine designed to protect people latently infected with TB from developing active TB disease. The ...
Medications
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Latest discovery in the fight against tuberculosis announced
New research from the Trudeau Institute may help in the ongoing fight against tuberculosis. Dr. Andrea Cooper's lab has discovered a connection between the development of new lymphoid tissue within the lung and protection ...
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Oct 18, 2011 |
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Tuberculosis bacterium's outer cell wall disarms the body's defense to remain infectious
The bacterium that causes tuberculosis has a unique molecule on its outer cell surface that blocks a key part of the body's defense. New research suggests this represents a novel mechanism in the microbe's evolving efforts ...
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Oct 03, 2011 |
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Serological antibody tests to detect active tuberculosis are inaccurate and not cost-effective
Despite being widely available for sale in low-and-middle income countries, commercial serological tests used to detect active tuberculosis (by identifying antibodies to the tuberculosis-causing bacterium in a blood sample) ...
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Aug 09, 2011 |
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