Tuberculosis News

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

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.

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 .

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 .

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

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)

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.

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

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.

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.

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 .

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

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

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.