Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Fighting drug-resistant tuberculosis

harminka — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:54:16 -0500

Tuberculosis (TB) has long been one of the world’s great killers. Now, forms of drug-resistant TB--multidrug (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR)--are occurring at an ominous and accelerating rate. To help in the fight against drug-resistant TB, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has formulated an MDR and XDR TB research agenda.

Kazakhstan reports outbreak of drug-resistant tuberculosis

Dinka — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:20:20 -0600

Kazakhstan's health ministry said Wednesday that the number of people, infected by drug-resistant tuberculosis is on the rise in almost all of the country's regions.

XDR tuberculosis in South Africa traced to lack of drug susceptibility testing

harminka — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:08:35 -0500

In South Africa, the 2001 implementation of the World Health Organization’s anti-tuberculosis program may have inadvertently helped to create a new strain of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB).

Genome for extra drug-resistant TB completed

Dinka — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:18:55 -0500

Doctors has completed genome for extra drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa, the Associated Press said Thursday.

Drug-resistant tuberculosis rises

harminka — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:15:30 -0500

An arsenal of promising new medications, vaccines, and diagnostic tests are moving toward the global battlefield that pits medicine against drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), which is claiming a terrible toll, particularly in HIV-infected individuals, according to an article scheduled for the Sept. 24 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, ACS’ weekly newsmagazine.

Doctors Change Diagnosis of American Man with Tuberculosis

Dinka — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:50:22 -0500

An American man who traveled internationally with tuberculosis - despite instructions not to - has a new diagnosis and is not as sick as government doctors initially said he was. As VOA's Carol Pearson reports, the new diagnosis comes as a huge relief to the patient, his family and to everyone he came in contact with.

WHO Launches Drive Against Drug-Resistant TB

Dinka — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:10:21 -0500

To many people, tuberculosis evokes images of 19th-century sanatoriums. It seems like an old-fashioned disease that was conquered long ago. Or else TB is seen as a "marginal"Â illness affecting only the down-and-out.

Tuberculosis: Public Health versus Personal Liberty

Dinka — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:11:41 -0500

Public health officials are growing increasingly concerned about drug resistant forms of tuberculosis. Last year, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa, an outbreak of extensively drug-resistant TB killed 52 of 53 people infected. TB is highly contagious, and to keep drug-resistant types from spreading, some health experts are considering mandatory quarantines.

Extent of deadly new TB strain in southern Africa not known

Dinka — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:21:46 -0500

There is the unknown extent of the deadly new strain of tuberculosis in South Africa and the region. This problem is a cause for concern, an international health expert said Wednesday. Dr Fabio Scano, a TB expert from the World Health Organization in Geneva, has been sent to South Africa at the request of the government to assist with the outbreak of the extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis strain, or XDR-TB.

WHO Warns Of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Dinka — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:33:37 -0500

The World Health Organization (WHO) says the rise of a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis (TB) is threatening efforts to bring the global epidemic of ordinary TB under control.

Russia Battles to Contain Tuberculosis

Dinka — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:09:01 -0500

Tuberculosis in Russia is one of the country's top health emergencies. The country has the highest TB mortality rate in Europe, 20 times higher than in the West. About half of all cases reported in the former Soviet Union are in Russia. Of particular concern in the region is the prevelance of a drug-resistant form of TB. VOA's Lisa McAdams in Moscow looks at Russian and Eurasian efforts to contain the disease, which doubled in the 1990s, but has leveled off since 2000.

Drug-resistant tuberculosis may be due to new infections

harminka — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:04:00 -0600