In fighting a disease, there are right ways and wrong ways to do things, and the global war on tuberculosis (TB) has had prominent examples of each. Lay people and scientists are often surprised ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates nearly 13 million people in the U.S. have “latent TB infection.

Drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis arises from the man-made selection of mutants that result from spontaneous chromosomal alterations. Preventing the development of drug-resistant TB ...

But multidrug-resistant strains of tuberculosis, called MDR-TB, are becoming extremely dangerous and require more expensive and painful drugs to cure. A promising program in Lima, Peru ...

A new drug Sirturo has received conditional approval for treatment of pulmonary multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The spread of multi-drug resistant TB is a growing global health problem ...

Background: The tuberculosis burden in children exposed at home to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is unquantified. With limited access to MDR-TB treatment, likely millions of children ...

In 2021 alone, 450,000 people developed multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, with treatment success rates dropping to just 57%, according to the World Health Organization. Now, Tulane University ...

Berhampur: The state govt has rolled out BPaLM, a shorter duration new treatment regimen for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients. The 26-week long BPaLM treatment regimen was ...