Background Almost 1/3 of incident pulmonary TB (PTB) cases in England start treatment >4 months after symptom onset. 1 Leicester, a high incidence TB area (>40 cases/100,000 population) provides a ...

Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, now known to be present in 50 countries, heighten the threat posed by untreatable and fatal human tuberculosis (TB). To combat ...

IT has been reported that a decrease in catalase activity is observed when tubercle bacilli acquire isoniazid resistance1, and later it was demonstrated that hæmin is required for growth by some of ...

bCRIMEDIM - Center for Research and Training in Disaster Medicine, Humanitarian Aid and Global Health, Università del Piemonte Orientale, 28100, Novara, Italy ...

We read with great interest the article by Qi et al. (1) titled "Higher Blood Manganese Level Is Associated with Increased Risk of Adult Latent Tubercul ...