Journal of Public Health, Vol. 32, No. 1 (March 2010), pp. 44-51 (8 pages) Background For a continuing London outbreak of isoniazid mono-resistant tuberculosis factors for contacts of early cases, in ...

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 ...

More than 10 million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB) every year. The disease remains the world’s biggest infectious disease killers with an estimated 1.25 million annual deaths. The disease is ...

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) 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 ...

Drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading even faster than medical experts had feared, the World Health Organization warned in a report issued Tuesday. The rate of TB patients infected with the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An analysis of 17 years of national surveillance data showed that all forms of rifampin resistance in patients ...

An Atlanta lawyer with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis is under federal quarantine at a hospital in Denver. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is trying to determine how the ...

Pune: Despite the global threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), official data from PMC indicates a decline in multi-drug ...

HONG KONG, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Levels of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in China are nearly twice the global average and almost 10 percent of cases are resistant to the most effective first-line ...

KAMPALA - Uganda’s fight against tuberculosis (TB) is facing a growing challenge due to the increasing burden of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB). ; Dr Emmanuel Tweyongyere, a senior medical officer ...

Experts have told Medscape News Europe that extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is emerging as a serious threat in Europe, describing it as a “quietly growing monster” that could ...