News tagged with tuberculosis bacilli
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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Study casts doubt on provocative tuberculosis theory
The tuberculosis bacterium is an insidious germ that can lie dormant for many years, then suddenly emerge and cause potentially fatal disease.
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Dec 21, 2009 |
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Tuberculosis patients can reduce transmissability by inhaling interferon through a nebulizer
A new study published in the September 15, 2009, issue of PLoS ONE found that patients with cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis receiving anti-TB medications supplemented with nebulized interferon-gamma have fewer bacilli in the ...
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Sep 15, 2009 |
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Urine LAM-ELISA poor at diagnosing TB
Urine LAM-ELISA does not appear to be useful as an independent diagnostic test for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). A trial of the new diagnostic, described in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases found that it was ...
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Aug 28, 2009 |
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New drug-resistant TB strains could become widespread, says new study
The emergence of new forms of tuberculosis could swell the proportion of drug-resistant cases globally, a new study has found. The finding raises concern that although TB incidence is falling in many regions, the emergence ...
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Aug 10, 2009 |
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Coming Soon: Tuberculosis Detection with a Chip?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many of the new techniques based on nanotechnology that have been developed for faster and more sensitive detection of pathogens fail in day-to-day clinical use because they require complex sample preparation ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Cellular safety shelters allow TB agent to survive in infected individuals
"Foamy" macrophage formation may be the key to persistence of infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis, explains a study published November 14 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens.
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Nov 14, 2008 |
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Proteomics study yields clues as to how tuberculosis might be thwarting the immune system
A link between the immune system and the self-cleaning system by which biological cells rid themselves of obsolete or toxic parts may one day yield new weapons in the fight against tuberculosis and other deadly ...
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Nov 05, 2008 |
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Better and faster: Distinguishing non-TB pulmonary disease from TB
A diagnostic kit shows new promise for distinguishing between tuberculosis (TB) and its infections from disease caused by related mycobacteria family, which mimic TB and other lung disease in symptoms but require distinctly ...
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Apr 01, 2008 |
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Survival of the fattest: TB accumulates fat to survive -- and spread
Medical scientists from the University of Leicester, together with colleagues from St Georges, University of London, funded principally by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and The Wellcome Trust, have published details ...
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Apr 01, 2008 |
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Research Helps Uncover the Secrets of an Age-Old Killer
Scientists working in part at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) have discovered a gene for a protein that regulates the cellular response to copper in the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. ...
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Dec 07, 2006 |
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