Puducherry’s ten medical colleges are emerging as the driving force behind the Union Territory’s TB elimination fight, contributing to more than 50 per cent of TB notifications and participating in ...

Lack of testing accounts for the highest number of patients lost in the TB care cascade, and stigma keeps many patients from ...

It mainly attacks the lungs (pulmonary TB), but it can also occur in other areas of the body (extrapulmonary TB) such as the kidneys, spine, or brain.

Abstract and Introduction Abstract TB is an infectious disease that is far from being eradicated and controlled. The treatment for TB is associated with noncompliance to therapy because it ...

Liposomes can be used as anti-TB nanocarriers for the treatment of both pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB; however, the success of therapy is highly dependent on the administration route of these ...

AI accelerates TB drug discovery and treatment monitoring Despite longstanding reliance on sputum smear microscopy, culture methods, and chest X-rays, conventional TB diagnostics remain plagued by ...

Sharma, S.K. and Mohan, A. (2004) Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis. Indian Journal of Medical Research, 120, 316-353. has been cited by the following article: TITLE: Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Secondary to ...

Characteristics of various subgroups were described based on TB epidemiological indicators and the interval between arrival and notification. The results showed migrants with TB from very high TB ...

The research team tested the system’s performance using cell-free DNA isolated from sera of a pediatric cohort with pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB. The LIT device demonstrated high sensitivity ...

This article is authored by Dr Ashok Bhardwaj and Dr Bhupendra Tripathi, deputy director, Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Delivery, Gates Foundation, India.