Your patients know about the man whose TB landed him in quarantine this spring. Are you up to speed on the latest developments surrounding TB? It’s not often that a single patient’s story appears on ...

What’s wrong with flying from Rome to Montreal once you know that you have extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis? Maybe nothing, says Effect Measure. The problem is the idea that anyone who has ...

Strains of tuberculosis (TB) that are resistant to both first-line and second-line drugs could threaten the success of not only tuberculosis programs, but also HIV treatment programs worldwide, ...

The approval significantly strengthens Delhi’s ability to diagnose multidrug-resistant (MDR-TB) and drug-resistant ...

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 ...

The global threat of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) could be managed with aggressive treatment programmes, reducing the mortality associated with the condition and preventing further ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The hardest-to-treat form of drug-resistant tuberculosis is a growing threat in many parts of the world, but remains quite rare in the United States, U.S. government health ...

Last week, activists and patients won a breakthrough in the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease: tuberculosis. Cepheid, a medical equipment manufacturer owned by the multinational ...