The World Health Organization’s guidelines for treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis include the use of at least five potentially effective drugs. However, a new PLOS Medicine prospective cohort ...

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 ...

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 ...

ATLANTA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - More than 80 percent of health departments in the United States that treat tuberculosis resistant to standard treatment have trouble obtaining the drugs they need to cure ...

This chart shows the share of people diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) who were cured/completed their treatment, by TB type (in %)*.

Additionally, cases of TB due to strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that are at least resistant to the mainstay first-line drugs isoniazid and rifampin (i.e., multidrug-resistant [MDR] strains) ...

Clinical trial results found that a new antibiotic candidate could shorten TB treatment from the standard 6 months to 8 weeks ...

Children with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) undergo months of life-saving treatment including many doses of foul-tasting medications, which caregivers often struggle to prepare and ...

Despite strong national programmes, late diagnosis, treatment gaps, private-sector fragmentation, and poor adherence remain ...

For patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), taking at least six potentially effective drugs, particularly including pyrazinamide, significantly increased the likelihood of achieving a ...

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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 ...