There were an estimated 490,000 new cases of drug-resistant TB in 2016. Tuberculosis, a lung disease most often transmitted by breathing infected particles in the air, is the ninth leading cause of ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Drugs used to treat Parkinson's disease show promise as a new way to stem the rise of drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. They said computer ...

Tuberculosis is both curable and preventable, yet each year, it still kills more people than any other infectious disease. One reason is that current treatments hinge on rifampicin, an antibiotic that ...

(Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Tuesday reported that extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), a lethal strain of the contagious lung disease, has spread to 55 countries and ...

For 2007, the WHO estimated 511,000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB, representing approximately 5% of all TB cases worldwide. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected in at ...

A new study uncovers vulnerabilities in drug-resistant TB, offering hope for improved treatments. Rutgers Health research has uncovered why a relatively new antibiotic for tuberculosis (TB) works ...

Tuberculosis (TB), one of the leading infectious disease killers worldwide, has long posed a challenge, particularly with the rise of drug-resistant forms. However, new research offers fresh hope in ...

Drug-resistant forms of the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis infections are difficult to identify, hard and expensive to treat, and represent a major global threat to public health. However, ...

The bad news, according to WHO's report, is that multi-drug resistant TB cases are largely flying under the radar. Less than 25 percent of drug resistant cases have been detected in 2012. In a ...

LONDON — Drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading even faster than experts had feared, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday. The rate of TB patients infected with the drug-resistant strain ...