Analysis of 84,128 people finds TB preventive treatment can offer long-term protection, particularly in lower-burden settings.

Tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) is considered one of the most important public health tools to protect individuals ...

The next major advancement in TB might not be a new drug, but a better understanding of how and why resistance to medicines ...

Free TB medicines don’t prevent financial hardship; indirect costs and private care keep households yet burdened, study says.

A new article published in Nature offers a promising path toward a shorter, more effective treatment for tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial disease that affects millions worldwide. Veronique Dartois, Ph.D ...

When you have a contagious disease like tuberculosis (TB), refusing treatment and refusing to isolate are not personal choices. Such choices affect not only you but also everyone around you, at least ...

The novel antibiotic candidate sorfequiline has the potential to shorten and improve tuberculosis (TB) treatment when combined with pretomanid and linezolid (SPaL), according to new clinical trial ...

A new study published in PLOS Global Public Health contributes to the growing evidence that nutrition should be treated as a core part of tuberculosis care—not an afterthought. The research, conducted ...

New Delhi, Sep 23 (PTI) Effects of preventive treatment for tuberculosis could start to wane after just one year of completing the antibiotics course in high-burden settings, while the protection ...

Some of the people diagnosed with TB in a couple of important community-based screening initiatives in Delhi did not come to ...

"In our study of US-bound immigrants in Vietnam during their required overseas medical examination prior to migration to the United States, we identified a high proportion of US-bound immigrants with ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 524 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis were reported in the United States (including U.S. territories and freely ...