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 ...

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 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 (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 ...

February 6, 2012 — Cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) hit an all-time high worldwide in 2009 and 2010, with 1 country reporting multidrug resistance in 65.1% of all previously treated ...

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) 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 ...

Patients who have drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) have a similar microbiological response to bedaquiline-based second-line medications as patients with drug-sensitive TB taking first-line regimens, ...

Shorter duration, fully oral treatment regimens for tuberculosis (TB) are now recommended for most adults and children. Updated joint guidelines from the American Thoracic Society, the CDC, European ...

8-year-old Asma, a TB patient who nears completion of her treatment, receives consultation at the Government General Hospital Samanabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Despite being preventable and curable, ...