New World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for the treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) are shaping as a game changer for the estimated 500,000 people diagnosed with DR-TB each year, ...

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For adolescents aged 14 years and older and adults with rifampin-resistant pulmonary TB, a 6-month bedaquiline, pretomanid, and linezolid regimen is as efficacious and safe as the current 15-month or ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major unrecognized cause of deadly sepsis among people with HIV in Africa, a sweeping new study reveals. Beginning treatment for TB immediately – even before sepsis patients are ...

When you have a contagious disease like tuberculosis (TB), refusing treatment and refusing to isolate are not personal choices. Such choices affect not only you but also everyone around you, at least ...

Shorter duration, fully oral treatment regimens for tuberculosis (TB) are now recommended for most adults and children. Updated joint guidelines from the American Thoracic Society, the CDC, European ...

Sydney researchers have found that Levofloxacin substantially reduces risk of drug-resistant tuberculosis. This discovery offers new hope against a disease that infects more than 400,000 people ...

A new study published in PLOS Global Public Health contributes to the growing evidence that nutrition should be treated as a core part of tuberculosis care—not an afterthought. The research, conducted ...

Nagpur: Over half of the tuberculosis (TB) prescriptions given outside the govt’s TB control programme in India are incorrect, according to the first nationwide study on treatment practices in the ...

Community Health Centre (CHC) Hajin has confirmed two cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in North Kashmir's ...