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

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 ...

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 ...

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

BEIJING — Countries must fight a "potentially explosive" rise in hard-to-treat strains of tuberculosis with stronger health care systems and better drugs and tests for infections, the World Health ...

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 ...

An estimated 440 000 cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) occurred worldwide in 2008 (3•6% of all TB cases that year), but only 7% of these cases were identified and treated. Extensively ...

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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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Linezolid successfully treated pregnant patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, with most patients ...