BCG World Atlas - a website that offers TB info from 180 countries
March 23rd, 2011 - 1:59 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 23 (ANI): Tuberculosis is a major health threat worldwide. Every second, someone in the world is newly infected with TB bacteria.Now, ahead of World TB Day on Thursday, Canadian ... Read more...
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Scientists find promising new TB vaccine candidate
March 19th, 2011 - 4:25 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 19 (ANI): A team of scientists have discovered a protein secreted by tuberculosis (TB) bacteria that could be a promising candidate for a new vaccine.The protein could also be ... Read more...
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New findings on drug tolerance could help cure TB faster
March 4th, 2011 - 6:23 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 4 (ANI): Current tuberculosis (TB) treatment requires a complex, long-term curative regimen of at least six months but that might change, thanks to a new study.New findings on how TB ... Read more...
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How TB bacteria to survive in infected organs
December 7th, 2010 - 2:04 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 7 (ANI): Indian researchers at the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in New Delhi, have identified how tuberculosis bacteria thrive in infected organs.Tuberculosis, caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium ... Read more...
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Scientists discover key difference in ‘kiss of death’ sequence of TB bacteria
October 18th, 2010 - 2:23 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 18 (ANI): Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have discovered a key difference in the way human cells and Mycobacterium tuberculosis ... Read more...
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New advance made in TB research
July 30th, 2010 - 5:33 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 30 (ANI): Existing drugs can potentially target tuberculosis' ability to spread, according to a McGill University researcher."It's a global health disaster waiting to happen, even here in Canada, but this ... Read more...
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Study shows experimental immune-boosting drug worsens TB in mice
April 13th, 2010 - 6:06 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, April 13 (ANI): Scientists from the National Institutes of Health have found that an experimental drug that boosts production of the immune system protein interferon worsens tuberculosis (TB) in mice.The drug ... Read more...
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India decodes TB bacteria, paves way for new drug
April 11th, 2010 - 8:13 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) Indian scientists have mapped the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome, a first of its kind achievement that gives hope of discovering a cost effective drug for the disease that ... Read more...
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Scientists find TB disease mechanism along with compound to block it
February 16th, 2010 - 6:01 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 16 (ANI): Scientists at Indiana University School of Medicine have discovered a TB disease mechanism along with a compound to block it.The tuberculosis bacterium evades the body's immune system using ... Read more...
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Doubt on provocative tuberculosis theory
December 22nd, 2009 - 3:56 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 22 (ANI): A new study has ruled out a recent theory about tuberculosis, which claimed that TB bacteria have the ability to turn into dormant, armour-plated spores.If true, the findings ... Read more...
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Indian-American unravels how TB bugs incite immune cells
December 12th, 2009 - 8:38 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 12 (IANS) An Indian-American immunologist has unravelled how a signalling pathway helps TB bugs incite immune cells into working for them.
"If we could keep this pathway from inciting the ... Read more...
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Simple test can sniff out tuberculosis bacteria
October 9th, 2009 - 5:57 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Oct 9 (IANS) A research group in the US has come up with a new way to use light to trace tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in fluids.
Diego Krapf, professor at Colorado State ... Read more...
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New, simpler optical method to diagnose TB
October 9th, 2009 - 2:09 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 9 (ANI): American researchers have demonstrated a new optical technique to detect TB bacteria in fluids.The method developed by a team of scientists at the Colorado State University (CSU) uses ... Read more...
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Potential key to curing tuberculosis uncovered
October 2nd, 2009 - 2:44 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 2 (ANI): Scientists from Iowa State University have discovered an enzyme that makes tuberculosis resistant to a human body's natural defense.When most infections are introduced into humans, the body defends ... Read more...
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CellScope - fluorescence microscope - can help diagnose diseases
July 22nd, 2009 - 12:37 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 22 (ANI): US researchers have developed a cell phone microscope, or CellScope, that not only takes color images of malaria parasites, but also of tuberculosis bacteria labeled with fluorescent markers.Brainchild ... Read more...
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How TB bacteria remain latent in body for decades
July 10th, 2009 - 6:50 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 10 (ANI): Scientists from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre have identified a protein that helps TB bacteria resist immune response, and remain latent in the body for decades.They hope that the ... Read more...
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Discovery of slow-growing TB bacteria may pave way for new drugs
March 30th, 2009 - 11:29 am ICT by ANI
Washington, March 30 (ANI): Scientists have found a large number of slow-growing Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria in the lungs of TB patients, which can pave the way for new medicines for treating the ... Read more...
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Quick, simple fluorescent detector for TB created
March 20th, 2009 - 1:44 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 20 (ANI): Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have developed a simple onsite technique to quickly diagnose tuberculosis (TB) injecting strains of ... Read more...
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Indian researcher creates compound that knocks out TB pathogen
February 2nd, 2009 - 2:49 pm ICT by IANS
Washington/New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) An Indian researcher has created a compound that knocks out four of the tuberculosis bacterium's crucial metabolic pathways simultaneously, ultimately crippling the pathogen. The development opens the ... Read more...
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Experimental drug shows promise against latent TB bacteria
November 28th, 2008 - 1:45 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 28 (ANI): Researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have determined how a promising drug candidate attacks the ... Read more...
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TB-bacteria linked to bone infections
October 18th, 2008 - 3:50 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 18 (ANI): A newly described species of bacteria related to the tuberculosis pathogen has been found to cause bone infectionsa discovery that may pave the way for better diagnosis ... Read more...
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Tricky TB bacterium sugarcoats its invasion of lungs
September 30th, 2008 - 4:49 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 30 (IANS) Common strains of TB causing bacteria have appropriated the body's immune response to play tricks on lungs cells, according to scientists.The results of this takeover are mixed. The ... Read more...
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TB bacterium uses sugar coat to become attractive to lung cells
September 30th, 2008 - 12:37 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, September 30 (ANI): Ohio State University researchers have found that the most common strain of TB bacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has learnt to coat itself with a sugar called mannose, which ... Read more...
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Lethal drug-resistant TB spreads at alarming rate in South Africa
August 17th, 2008 - 6:16 pm ICT by IANS
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Johannesburg, Aug 17 (DPA) A drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis (TB) is spreading at an alarming rate in South Africa and is threatening to overwhelm health services in neighbouring countries, a report in ... Read more...
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Bacteria steal iron from human hosts to survive
August 1st, 2008 - 1:07 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Aug 1 (IANS) Like humans, bacteria need iron to survive, a discovery that can open up new and more effective ways to target diseases like tuberculosis. Some bacteria are equipped with ... Read more...
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Source of drug-tolerant tuberculosis possibly behind TB relapses found
June 12th, 2008 - 3:49 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 12 (ANI): University of Pittsburgh-led researchers have found a possible reason why human tuberculosis (TB) requires months of intensive antibiotic treatment, as well as a potential cause of the ... Read more...
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Heres how TB bacteria hide and multiply in the human body
May 15th, 2008 - 1:52 pm ICT by admin
Washington, May 15 (ANI): Canadian scientists have gained important insights into the process whereby tuberculosis (TB) bacteria hide and multiply in the human body, and are now endeavouring to devise a ... Read more...
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New chemical has the potential to eliminate latent TB bacteria
March 15th, 2008 - 12:39 pm ICT by admin
Washington, March 15 (ANI): Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York say that the success of the lab experiments they conducted recently suggest that a new compound may provide ... Read more...
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