A new test for diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) in children detects roughly two-thirds of cases identified by the current culture test, but in a fraction of the time, according to the results of a study in South Africa supported ...
Jul 25, 2013
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The researchers of the Experimental Tuberculosis Unit of the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), led by Pere-Joan Cardona, have published the first results of a computational model that aims to reproduce the ...
Oct 16, 2020
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Tuberculosis remains the most deadly infectious diseases in the world. In particular, the growing number of multiresistant microbes is a cause of great concern to doctors and healthcare policymakers. At least a dozen candidate ...
Mar 23, 2018
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More than 28 million people around the world have now contracted COVID-19, and more than 900,000 people have died.
Sep 15, 2020
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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 ...
Aug 23, 2012
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In 2020, more than 1.5 million people around the world died of tuberculosis, marking the first time in more than a decade that annual TB deaths had increased and demonstrating the global need for better access to treatments. ...
Aug 8, 2022
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A molecule made in the lab may change the way tuberculosis is diagnosed in the field.
Feb 28, 2018
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered a promising new class of antibiotics that could aid efforts to overcome drug-resistance in tuberculosis (TB), a global killer. The drugs increased survival ...
Mar 5, 2014
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Today, the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) publish their jointly developed European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ESTC). The 21 patient-centred ...
Apr 1, 2012
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Effective tuberculosis control in India needs political will and commitment, backed by sufficient resources, says a senior doctor in The BMJ this week.
Mar 23, 2015
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