Researchers identified three new all-oral drug regimens that include at least one of two new drugs for treatment of ...

Child MDR-TB is also more common in countries with a high burden of drug-resistant TB among adults, for example, parts of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and India, Dr. Dubey highlighted.

The alarming rise in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) among children has sparked serious concerns in the global healthcare community. Recent research, leveraging data from the Global ...

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 ...

The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. From David ...

Every year, 10 million people contract tuberculosis (TB), a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and approximately 1.5 million patients succumb to the disease. Treatment ...

Tuberculosis may seem like a historic malady, but it’s still the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Here’s what you need ...

Reducing silico-TB cases in India is crucial because it increases the risk of developing drug-resistant TB, has higher mortality rates compared to regular TB, and is a major public health concern with ...

Scientists at Roche and Harvard University have discovered an entirely new class of antibiotic that can kill a highly drug-resistant ‘superbug’ with a mortality rate that can be upwards of 50% ...

which is inoculated with a 1:100 dilution of the TB strain, or a 1:10 dilution in case of PZA testing. Detection of fluorescence in the drug-containing tubes determines a strain as resistant ...