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 ...

Tuberculosis bacteria released into the air from infected individuals dry out to form infectious particles that are second only to measles in contagiousness. Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have ...

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 ...

Tuberculosis remains one of the top infectious disease killers worldwide, a challenge amplified by drug-resistant forms of the disease. Now, in a major step forward, an international clinical trial ...

Across Europe, tuberculosis (TB) is once again raising alarm, particularly the extensively drug-resistant form (XDR-TB), which is proving as deadly as before antibiotics were discovered. A large ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health challenge, affecting millions each year. In 2023, an estimated 10.8 million people contracted TB, with 1.25 million deaths, according to the World Health ...

African scientists have developed a nanoscale drug delivery system to treat pericarditis, a drug-resistant and lethal tuberculosis (TB). The scientists' system can breach the heart's protective ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's biggest infectious disease killer with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) posing a particular threat to global health. A study shows that resistance to the new MDR-TB ...

Sydney researchers have found that Levofloxacin substantially reduces risk of drug-resistant tuberculosis. This discovery offers new hope against a disease that infects more than 400,000 people ...

Researchers found that pairing the antibiotic rifampicin with a second compound turned multidrug resistance into a weakness—providing proof of concept for using basic science to design life-saving ...

The largest ever survey of drug-resistant tuberculosis has unveiled “worrying” levels of the disease, with health experts warning that the issue is a global problem. Patients in former Soviet states ...