Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

28 people test positive for tuberculosis at Kansas school

More than two dozen cases of tuberculosis have been detected at an eastern Kansas high school after widespread screening, state and county health officials announced Wednesday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Tuberculosis still raging in Eastern Europe (Update)

About a thousand people still contract tuberculosis daily in Europe and Central Asia, despite an overall decline of the disease, a report by the Europe Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) revealed Tuesday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Characteristics of tuberculosis source cases identified

(HealthDay)—In 26 U.S. tuberculosis outbreaks the initial source case-patients had long incubation periods and were characterized by substance abuse, incarceration, and homelessness, according to a study published in the ...

Oncology & Cancer

Elucidating the origin of MDR tuberculosis strains

A study has focused on the evolutionary history of the mycobacterium that causes tuberculosis, and more specifically on the Beijing lineage associated with the spread of multidrug resistant forms of the disease in Eurasia. ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Zombie bacteria in tuberculosis

"Living-dead" bacteria exist in limbo: biologically active but not proliferating. Buried in this zombie state, disease-causing bacteria could come back from the dead to re-infect patients. Researchers at EPFL have produced ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

A new way of improving tuberculosis treatment rejected

Tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people across the world every year. The existing treatment is effective but long. Many patients abandon it before completion, increasing the risk of a relapse and favouring the emergence of ...

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