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 ...

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An international research team headed by scientists at the University of British Columbia has demonstrated how a novel semi-synthetic compound derived from sanguinarine (SG), an alkaloid extracted ...

February 6, 2012 — Cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) hit an all-time high worldwide in 2009 and 2010, with 1 country reporting multidrug resistance in 65.1% of all previously treated ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The CDC, IDSA and other agencies created updated guidance for treating drug-susceptible and drug-resistant TB.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Three all-oral 9-month treatments for drug-resistant tuberculosis were found to be noninferior to standard ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns of a “ticking time bomb” as tuberculosis is getting increasingly resistant to antibiotics. According to the WHO, almost 500,000 people have a type of TB that ...

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 in at ...

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