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Friday Feb 10 | BioMed Central

Analysis of gene mutations associated with isoniazid, rifampicin and...

The emergence of drug resistance is one of the most important threats to tuberculosis control programs.

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Related Topix: Isoniazid (generic), Nydrazid, Laniazid, Medicine, Medication, Health, Myambutol, Ethambutol (generic), World News, Germany,

Friday Feb 10 | Examiner.com

Longmont High School TB testing expanded

Officials from the Denver Metro Tuberculosis Clinic have ordered all 1200 students and 120 faculty and staff members at Longmont High School to be tested for tuberculosis.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Thu Feb 09, 2012

Patch.com

SBU Professor Wages Attack on Tuberculosis

A distinguished professor of chemistry at Stony Brook University is researching a new treatment for tuberculosis, which kills about 3 million people per year, according to a report published Thursday in The Village Times Herald .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Chemistry, Science

Tue Feb 07, 2012

The Hartford Courant

Clinic Employee Angry And Upset After Testing Positive For TB

A five-year employee of the Charter Oak Health Center who tested positive for tuberculosis last week said Tuesday that she is angered by a lack of information from clinic officials regarding a risk of possible exposure to TB.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Hartford, CT, Middlebury, CT

EurekAlert!

Treatment for tuberculosis can be guided by patients' genetics

These zebrafish larvae are infected with fluorescently labeled bacteria related to those that cause tuberculosios in humans.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Genetics, Biology, Science, University of Washington, Duke University, Harvard University

Sun Feb 05, 2012

Yuma Sun

Hibernating TB calls for treatment

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My son had blood work done for employment at a hospital. He tested positive for latent TB, so now he has to take isoniazid for nine months.

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Related Topix: Isoniazid (generic), Nydrazid, Laniazid, Medicine, Medication, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Health, Yuma, AZ

Pakistan Christian Post

Deathly friendship of bacteria and virus: TB-HIV co-infection. By Shobha Shukla

The clinical course and opportunistic infections of HIV vary from patient to patient and country to country.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health, Isoniazid (generic), Nydrazid, Laniazid, Medicine, Medication, Myambutol, Ethambutol (generic), Infectious Diseases, Opinion

Sat Feb 04, 2012

Detroit Free Press

Editorial: Lives at risk if the U.S. shortchanges Global Fund

A mother in Kuje, Nigeria, plays with her child on a bed protected by an insecticide-treated net provided by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health, Medicine, Malaria, Entomology, Science, Opinion

Fri Feb 03, 2012

MediLexicon

Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis - Update

The World Health Organization has ongoing programs to improve and monitor tuberculosis .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Isoniazid (generic), Nydrazid, Laniazid, Medication

Medical News Today

Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis - Update

Main Category: Tuberculosis Also Included In: MRSA / Drug Resistance ; Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 03 Feb 2012 - 9:00 PST The World Health Organization has ongoing programs to improve and monitor tuberculosis .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Infectious Diseases, Isoniazid (generic), Nydrazid, Laniazid, Medication

Crofs Blogs

WHO says TB in Russia displays highest known drug resistance

The World Health Organization recently announced that tuberculosis cases found in Moldova, Belarus and Russia display the highest levels of drug-resistance known.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Belarus, World News

Medical News

Media outlets examine Global Fund's future as it enters second decade

The  Guardian examines the future of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as it enters its second decade, writing, "Despite its staggering successes -- including helping put 3.3 million people on AIDS treatment, 8.6 million on anti-tuberculosis treatment and providing 230 million insecticide-treated nets for the prevention ... (more)

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Medicine, Health, Malaria

Thu Feb 02, 2012

CiteULike

Emergence of New Forms of Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Bacilli

Background: The study documented the emergence of new forms of resistant bacilli among patients with multidrug-resistant TB .Methods: Susceptibility testing against first- and second-line drugs was performed on isolated Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Centers for Disease Control and Preve...

Errata: Vol. 60, No. 48

In the report, " Recommendations for Use of an Isoniazid-Rifapentine Regimen with Direct Observation to Treat Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection, " errors occurred.

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Related Topix: Isoniazid (generic), Nydrazid, Laniazid, Medicine, Medication, Health, Healthcare Law, Law, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

PhysOrg Weblog

'Goldilocks' gene could determine best treatment for tuberculosis patients

Tuberculosis patients may receive treatments in the future according to what version they have of a single 'Goldilocks' gene, says an international research team from Oxford University, King's College London, Vietnam and the USA.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Genetics, Cancer, Inflammation, University of Washington

Mon Jan 30, 2012

Scientific American

Fear-Resistance: How Worried Should We Be about 'Totally Drug-Resistant' Tuberculosis?

An Indian clinic's claim of totally untreatable TB ignited public fears, but experts say poor disease management is the real threat A few weeks ago a clinic in Mumbai claimed to have identified a dozen patients with a strain of tuberculosis resistant to all known treatments.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, World News, India,

Sat Jan 28, 2012

Crofs Blogs

TDR-TB and the NTDS

This post appeared on January 19 on the blog End the Neglect, which deals with neglected tropical diseases, and which I promise I will stop neglecting: TDR-TB and the NTDS .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Medication, Zithromax, Azithromycin (generic)

Fri Jan 27, 2012

CBS Local

Latent TB Outbreak Has Parents In Longmont Concerned

Public health officials discovered several cases of latent tuberculosis among Longmont High School students, so testing of students and staff will be expanded.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Education Etc.

CBS Local

Red Oak ISD Teaching Parents About Tuberculosis

RED OAK - Parents in the Red Oak Independent School District are concerned about a possible case of tuberculosis in their community.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Red Oak, TX, Education Etc.

Thu Jan 26, 2012

Newkerala.com

Bill Gates contributes $750 million to global AIDS fund

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND : U.S. billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Thursday announced his foundation will give $750 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria after several countries stopped their payments over the alleged misuse of funds.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health, Bill Gates, Microsoft, Startups, Medicine, Malaria

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