AdminJan 11, 20192 min read33,000 people die every year due to infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteriaAn ECDC study estimates the burden of five types of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria of public health concern in the...
AdminJan 29, 20183 min readCleverly designed tuberculosis vaccine shows promise in miceWith the rise of multidrug resistant tuberculosis, the difficulty of curing the disease, and the large annual death toll, a successful...
AdminOct 5, 20174 min readHow tuberculosis hides in the bodyTuberculosis bacteria hide in the very cells that would normally kill them. Now we know more about how they evade recognition....
AdminAug 3, 20171 min readGlobal Fund gives Kenya Sh33b for HIV/AIDS, malaria and TBKenya has received Sh33 billion from the Global Fund to boost the war against HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis. The grant came after...
AdminAug 3, 20173 min readTB: Genetic drug resistance tests as good in gauging treatment outcome, death risk as traditional cuNovel molecular tests are gaining popularity as a rapid way to detect genetic mutations that render tuberculosis impervious to drugs....
AdminJul 7, 20173 min readHealth: Report Calls For Increased Efforts On TB; WHO Warns About Antibiotic-Resistant Sexually TranTuberculosis is still a deadly killer, and a new report by two humanitarian organisations raises alarm on poor progress on the disease...
AdminJun 27, 20173 min readA new antibiotic for drug-resistant tuberculosisTUBERCULOSIS has plagued humanity for thousands of years. The discovery in the 19th century of its cause, a bacterium (pictured above)...
AdminJun 1, 20172 min readTuberculosis bacterium may undermine immune regulation to drive disease progressionSuppression of regulatory pathways may increase production of a protein that destroys lung tissue The bacterium that causes tuberculosis...
