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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

created Sep 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0