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It may soon be possible to identify patients who will develop tuberculosis, as scientists have identified changes in the blood specific to the disease. These findings are from an international study published in the August 19 issue of Nature and conducted...
Kenyan government officials have defended the arrest and incarceration of two men infected with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, who failed to adhere to their treatment.
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Two Iowa State University researchers discovered that a special set of sugars found on some disease-causing pathogens helps those pathogens fight the body’s natural defenses as well as vaccines. This discovery may be a first step in understanding...
Massachusetts General Hospital and the Iacocca Foundation announce the completion of the Phase I BCG clinical trial in type 1 diabetes, as well as the submission of all safety reports to the US Food and Drug Administration and the MGH data safety monitoring...
South Africa has one of the highest rates of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), but a study has found that many nurses have not been trained to handle this deadly, difficult-to-treat strain of the disease.
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Too many tuberculosis patients are not receiving counseling about the link between TB and HIV, according to new research.
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A complex mix of issues drives drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) patients to default on medication, not least of which are alcohol and money, according to new research presented by Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF), the international medical charity, at the...
The fight against tuberculosis (TB) has failed children: the share of paediatric TB is increasing, and children have not escaped the rising tide of drug-resistant strains, according to new research presented at the South African TB Conference.
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Scientists at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered that the strategy of “immune evasion” common to many viruses, bacteria and parasites, is uncommon to M. tuberculosis where the antigens remain strikingly unchanged and homogeneous.
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