Study shows high tuberculosis risk in kids exposed to disease
Young children exposed to tuberculosis are at surprisingly high risk of developing the disease, according to research led by the School of Medicine.
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Young children exposed to tuberculosis are at surprisingly high risk of developing the disease, according to research led by the School of Medicine.
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Antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis is a common and serious problem globally. In a new article, researchers from Uppsala University describe how tuberculosis bacteria that carries a mutation that in theory should kill them ...
Jan 27, 2020
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A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Science and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, both in India, have found that the antimalarial drug chloroquine can make the tuberculosis bacteria more sensitive to ...
Scientists said Tuesday they are closing in on a new game-changing vaccine for tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease that claimed some 1.5 million lives last year.
Oct 29, 2019
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Scientists have developed a new technique that enables them to visualise how well antibiotics against tuberculosis (TB) reach their pathogenic targets inside human hosts. The findings, published in the journal Science, boost ...
Jun 27, 2019
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Tuberculosis is a potentially deadly though curable disease. Each year about 10 million people develop active cases, and 1.6 million people die. In addition, about 1.7 billion people around the world are infected with TB ...
May 14, 2019
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About 1.5 million people died of tuberculosis (TB) in 2017, making it the most lethal infectious disease worldwide. A growing rise in drug-resistant TB is a major obstacle to successfully treating the illness.
May 7, 2019
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Unique particles modified to mimic bacteria may provide a better means of treating infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis.
Mar 25, 2019
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The discovery of the peptide as a possible future antibiotic was made by researchers who screened different antimicrobial peptides' ability to prevent the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The peptide they found comes ...
Mar 5, 2019
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Using freshly resected lung tissue from 21 patients and two distinct mouse models, tuberculosis researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Africa Health Research Institute, or AHRI, have identified a protein ...
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