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Tuberculosis (TB) Drug Doses Too Low for Today's Obese Populations, Says Study by MedNews Patient Expert

Posted Thu 30 Jul 2009 3:52pm are at that weight.” About one-third of the world’s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB, and as many as 2 million people die from the disease... pivotal in treating tuberculosis effectively is much too low to account for modern-day physiques, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers said. The finding, reported online Read on »

Creating Awareness for Extremely Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB) by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted Tue 07 Oct 2008 6:20pm Last year, you may remember the stories and the blog entries the about Robert Daniels, the American lawyer, who was quarantined because of XDR-TB, but the problem goes far beyond the geographical boundaries of the US -- it is a new and deadly form of tuberculosis that is threatening to become a global pandemic. In an effort to stop the disease Read on »

Tuberculosis, XDR-TB and Personalized Medicine!! by Dr. Steve Murphy Medical Doctor

Posted Wed 22 Oct 2008 6:18pm After all the talking and pundits, after all the media hype and fear. XDR-TB still remains a serious issue. True there seems to be significantironyin this case and that may make it stick around a while.What is XDR-TB? Well according to theCDC "Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB – or TB that is resistant to at least two main first-line drugs Read on »

Pitt-led Researchers Find Source of Drug-Tolerant Tuberculosis Possibly Behind TB Relapses, Intensity of Treatment by Ed H. Doctor of Pharmacy

Posted Mon 16 Jun 2008 6:13pm reported in “Molecular Microbiology.” The findings suggest a possible reason why human tuberculosis (TB) requires months of intensive antibiotic treatment and indicate a potential... Growth of TB bacteria as biofilms result in cells genetically and physiologically different from those lab-cultured for antibiotics University of Pittsburgh-led researchers Read on »

Researchers Find Source of Drug-Tolerant Tuberculosis Possibly Behind TB Relapses, Intensity of Treatment by Ed H. Doctor of Pharmacy

Posted Mon 16 Jun 2008 6:13pm why human tuberculosis (TB) requires months of intensive antibiotic treatment and indicate a potential cause of the relapses that can nonetheless occur. The researchers are the first to show that Mycobacterium tuberculosis can grow in surface-level bacteria clusters known as biofilms that are common in nature but never before shown for TB bacteria Read on »

Discovery of Novel Pharmacophores Inhibiting the Growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by nih.gov Posted Sun 13 Jun 2010 5:00pm Description of Invention: Tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis infects roughly one third of the world population and approximately 8 million people develop TB annually. The emergence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB strains highlight the need for new drugs against TB Read on »

Tuberculosis Facts And Treatments by Shilah C. Azib Posted Fri 26 Feb 2010 12:48pm affect your lung directly, due to which lung swells painfully making breathing uneasy. As Tuberculosis infects lungs directly, it is also known as Pulmonary TB, which is usual form... Tuberculosis is amongst the most dangerous disease due to which about 2 million people die every year and around 6 million people develops tuberculosis (TB Read on »

New protein could be used to target tuberculosis vaccination by totalhealth Posted Mon 21 Mar 2011 1:01pm A protein which could be targeted as a possible tuberculosis vaccination has been discovered by scientists at the Imperial College London. Tuberculosis (TB... that causes TB, mycobacterium Tuberculosis. The new protein that has been identified is called EspC, and is secreted by the bacterium provoking a very strong immune response Read on »

Genetic Signature May Lead to Better Tuberculosis Diagnosis by Medline Plus Posted Wed 18 Aug 2010 9:01am " in the blood of patients with active tuberculosis (TB) and believe their discovery could help develop better diagnostic tests for the disease, as well as better treatments. More than 2 billion people, or a third of the world's population, are estimated to be infected with the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) which causes TB, but the vast Read on »

Tuberculosis Control and Socio-economic factors by Vaidyan Charakan Posted Sun 04 Oct 2009 11:14pm that he had discovered the cause of tuberculosis, the TB bacillus. At the time of Koch's announcement in Berlin, TB was raging through Europe and the Americas, causing the death... and territories had reported at least one case of extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB). Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) Multi-drug resistanttuberculosis(MDR-TB) is defined Read on »