News tagged with pulmonary tb
Highlight: New TB diagnostic proves effective, expedient, study finds
A molecular test designed to easily diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and detect a drug-resistant form of the bacterium that causes TB can provide much more specific, sensitive and rapid results than currently available TB diagnostics, ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 01, 2010 |
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Study establishes most effective technique for diagnosing childhood tuberculosis in poor countries
A tuberculosis (TB) culture method called microscopic-observation drug-susceptibility (MODS), using two gastric aspirate specimens from each child tested, is significantly more sensitive and faster than conventional culture ...
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Jul 25, 2010 |
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New test quickly ID's active TB in smear-negative patients
Active tuberculosis can be rapidly identified in patients with negative sputum tests by a new method, according to European researchers. Active tuberculosis (TB) is the seventh-leading cause of death worldwide, and while ...
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Sep 23, 2009 |
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TB vaccine enters new clinical trials
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s leading candidate for a tuberculosis vaccine, developed at the University of Oxford, is to enter Phase IIb proof-of-concept clinical trials, making it the first TB candidate vaccine ...
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Apr 23, 2009 |
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Slow-growing TB bacteria point the way to new drug development
The discovery of a large number of slow-growing Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which cause tuberculosis (TB), in the lungs of TB patients could be an important step forward in the design of new anti-TB drugs.
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Mar 30, 2009 |
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