First clinical trial to test a new all-oral regimen for extensively drug-resistant TB; Nix-TB is a critical step in the development of a universal treatment for all types of TB TB Alliance and its ...

What’s wrong with flying from Rome to Montreal once you know that you have extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis? Maybe nothing, says Effect Measure. The problem is the idea that anyone who has ...

Strains of tuberculosis (TB) that are resistant to both first-line and second-line drugs could threaten the success of not only tuberculosis programs, but also HIV treatment programs worldwide, ...

The global threat of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) could be managed with aggressive treatment programmes, reducing the mortality associated with the condition and preventing further ...

For 2007, the WHO estimated 511,000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB, representing approximately 5% of all TB cases worldwide. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected in at ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The hardest-to-treat form of drug-resistant tuberculosis is a growing threat in many parts of the world, but remains quite rare in the United States, U.S. government health ...

Despite newer TB drugs, delayed diagnosis, atypical symptoms and drug resistance continue to complicate treatment ...

A recent international study found alarmingly high levels drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis (TB) in a number of countries. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...