Tuberculosis News

A shortage of the first-line tuberculosis drug isoniazid that began last November has left TB control programs scrambling to find the drug and "could contribute to TB transmission," according to MMWR .

A shortage of a critical tuberculosis drug has hampered the efforts of health departments across the United States to contain the spread of the highly infectious lung disease, federal officials report.

Tuberculosis disease is treated in most cases with a regimen of several drugs taken for 6-9 months.

By Dorothy Namutamba Tuberculosis remains a major global health problem. It causes ill-health among millions of people each year and ranks as the second leading cause of death from an infectious disease worldwide, after the human immunodeficiency virus .

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A U.S. non-profit group plans to build a tuberculosis treatment training center in Pyongyang by the end of this year, a report said Saturday.

Despite the downward trend in the absolute number of tuberculosis cases since 2006 and the fall in the incidence rates since 2001, the burden of disease caused by TB remains a global health challenge.

TB is tuberculosis , a mycobacterial infection, that has developed resistance to two important and powerful first-line anti-TB drugs, INH and rifampin.

A global financing institution to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria requested Korea to play a bigger role in international efforts to defeat the diseases that threaten hundreds of millions of lives, especially in poor countries.

A contact investigation showed that the prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection among other evacuees at the shelter was 20%. Our report underscores the importance of tuberculosis prevention and control after natural disasters.