A regional corner of Africa is a hotspot for cases of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, prompting researchers to call for targeted health support rather than a national response.
Feb 25, 2022
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A new vaccine against tuberculosis may also be used as treatment. The vaccine is safe to give to people with tuberculosis disease and strengthens the immune system's ability to attack the bacteria that cause the disease, ...
Jan 28, 2022
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COVID-19 has nothing on tuberculosis. The bacterial infection has ravaged humanity for thousands of years—accounting for one quarter of all deaths in the United States and Europe for 300 years before the discovery of antibiotics.
Dec 22, 2021
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Breathing is enough to spread the bacteria that causes tuberculosis, research presented at a major conference on Tuesday shows, potentially forcing the medical community to rethink decades of containment strategy focusing ...
Oct 19, 2021
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Using cutting-edge genomic sequencing techniques, researchers at the University of Oxford have identified almost all the genomic variation that gives people resistance to 13 of the most common tuberculosis (TB) drug treatments.
Oct 19, 2021
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Tuberculosis is on the rise again globally for the first time in a decade, linked to disruptions in access to healthcare because of the COVID pandemic, the World Health Orgnization said on Thursday.
Oct 14, 2021
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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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