All Articles Tagged As: tuberculosis

Researchers develop safer, more effective TB vaccine for HIV-positive people (10/30/2008)

TB is the leading cause of death worldwide for HIV-positive individuals ...> Full Article

Research identifies type of vaccine that holds promise in protecting against TB (10/21/2008)

Researchers are one step closer to finding a vaccine that better protects against tuberculosis ...> Full Article

Research Team Sheds Light on Immune System Suppression (10/19/2008)

Work Could Aid Development of New Treatments for Such Conditions as HIV, Measles, and Tuberculosis ...> Full Article

New vaccines may not reduce TB incidence (10/8/2008)

Despite the potential of new vaccines to prevent TB, new research shows that the removal of one strain of TB can allow a previously suppressed strain to succeed. Consequently, a vaccination program could result in the proliferation of strains more likely to be, or become, drug resistant, and could even result in an increased prevalence of the disease. ...> Full Article

TB Bacterium Uses Its Sugar Coat To Sweeten Its Chances Of Living In Lungs (9/30/2008)

Common strains of tuberculosis-causing bacteria have hijacked the human body's immune response to play tricks on cells in the lungs ...> Full Article

Novel tuberculosis vaccine in Germany in clinical phase (9/15/2008)

For the first time in more than 80 years a promising live vaccine against tuberculosis has passed into the clinical phase in Germany ...> Full Article

Rifamycin antibiotics attack tuberculosis bacteria with walls, not signals (8/21/2008)

Amid concerns about the rising number of new tuberculosis cases worldwide, researchers have reexamined and disproved a theory that describes how a potent class of antibiotics kills a deadly form of bacteria ...> Full Article

Scientists discover how some bacteria may steal iron from their human hosts (8/1/2008)

Discovery could lead to new ways to fight tuberculosis ...> Full Article

Hopes for TB vaccine boosted (7/28/2008)

The world's leading candidate for a tuberculosis vaccine, is to move into the next stage of development. ...> Full Article

New drug to stop tuberculosis epidemic (6/8/2008)

Researchers are developing a new drug against tuberculosis (TB), one of the oldest human infectious diseases, which is now threatening to reach epidemic proportions once more. ...> Full Article

Researchers Discover Missing Link Between TB Bacteria and Humans: New Treatment Expected (5/16/2008)

Researchers have discovered how tuberculosis (TB) bacteria hide and multiply in the human body and are working toward a treatment to block this mechanism of infection. ...> Full Article

Researchers target virulence factors (5/4/2008)

Researchers a potent new way to treat tuberculosis, Hansen's disease (leprosy) and other bacteria-caused illnesses: by inhibiting molecular targets -- the so-called "virulence factors" that help bacteria thrive once they are in the host. ...> Full Article

NIAID Describes Research Priorities to Fight Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (4/24/2008)

NIAID outlines plans to combat tuberculosis ...> Full Article

Survival of the fattest: TB accumulates fat to survive - and spread (4/3/2008)

Scientists have published details of a new breakthrough discovery on TB. ...> Full Article

Complexities Of Genetic Susceptibility To Tuberculosis Revealed (3/31/2008)

Researchers working in Vietnam have identified a genetic variant that predisposes people to developing a lethal form of tuberculosis (TB), tuberculous meningitis, if they are infected with a strain of TB known as the Beijing strain. The work underlines the importance of studying both sides of the complex host-pathogen interaction and its role in susceptibility to disease. ...> Full Article

African 'sniffer' rats used to develop TB breath test (3/25/2008)

Researchers are developing a unique breath test for tuberculosis (TB) - a disease that continues to kill more than two million people every year world-wide and is again becoming more prevalent in developed countries like New Zealand. ...> Full Article

Scientists discover how TB 'develops invincibility' against only available treatment (3/17/2008)

Scientists have uncovered a dramatic new twist in the battle against TB ...> Full Article

New chemical can kill latent tuberculosis bacteria (3/15/2008)

Eliminating this dormant but threatening form of the bacteria could prevent TB's spread, Weill Cornell researchers say ...> Full Article

Inhaled tuberculosis vaccine more effective than traditional shot (3/14/2008)

A novel aerosol version of the most common tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, administered directly to the lungs as an oral mist, offers significantly better protection against the disease in experimental animals than a comparable dose of the traditional injected vaccine, researchers report this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ...> Full Article

Scientists seek to disarm TB's 'molecular weapon' (3/9/2008)

Researchers seek to gain edge in war against ancient foe ...> Full Article

New survey finds highest rates of drug-resistant TB to date (2/29/2008)

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has been recorded at the highest rates ever, according to a new report published today. The report presents findings from the largest survey to date on the scale of drug resistance in tuberculosis. ...> Full Article

Key to TB's 'staying power' unlocked (2/21/2008)

The first report of a biomolecular structure resolved using the Oxfordshire Diamond synchrotron is giving vital help in the fight against tuberculosis. ...> Full Article

Researchers discover new compounds active against tuberculosis and malaria (2/16/2008)

Researcher has discovered new compounds active for treating tuberculosis and malaria. Her thesis, defended at the School of Sciences, describes the synthesis and characterisation of 65 derivatives of quinoxaline, the structure of which is similar to a number of antimalalarial and antituberculosis pharmaceutical drugs currently on the market. Of the molecules prepared, four stand out for their antimalalarial activity and 15 for their antituberculosis activity. ...> Full Article

Battling TB, and E. coli, centre receives increased funding (1/19/2008)

Research that has led to an antidote to the E. coli toxin and a possible drug to combat Alzheimer's disease were just two of the highlights of a centre that received $12.5 million in funding today. ...> Full Article

New Drug Targets May Fight Tuberculosis and Other Bacterial Infections in Novel Way (12/29/2007)

Research Into 'Virulence Factors' Expands War Against Infectious Disease Beyond Antibiotics ...> Full Article

Center takes on North American battle against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (12/15/2007)

Multidrug- resistant tuberculosis has a new challenger, a center in the Purdue Research Park that on Tuesday (Dec. 11) became the sole North American producer of a potent antibiotic. ...> Full Article

Seeking to create better drugs, researchers chip away at how tuberculosis survives inside human defense cells (12/14/2007)

Researchers are using advanced genetic techniques to better understand the relationship between the bacteria that cause tuberculosis and the human immune system defense cells that engulf them. ...> Full Article

Scientists decode genomes of tuberculosis microbes (11/28/2007)

Work could aid research on drug-resistant TB ...> Full Article

Scientists Decode Genomes of Diverse TB Isolates (11/21/2007)

Work of South Africa-US Research Team Gives First Look at Genome of XDR TB; Initial Analysis Highlights Small Number of DNA Differences Among Drug-resistant and drug-sensitive Microbes ...> Full Article

Simple Strategy Could Prevent Half of Deadly Tuberculosis Infections (11/1/2007)

By using a combination of inexpensive infection control measures, hospitals around the world could prevent half the new cases of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB), according to a new study in The Lancet by researchers at Yale School of Medicine. ...> Full Article

New antibiotic drug combo to speed up treatment of tuberculosis (9/19/2007)

A team of tuberculosis experts at Johns Hopkins and in Brazil have evidence that substituting the antibiotic moxifloxacin in the regimen of drugs used to treat the highly contagious form of lung disease could dramatically shorten the time needed to cure the illness from six months to four. ...> Full Article

Researchers Seek Volunteers For Study On Diabetes, Tuberculosis (8/16/2007)

A study at the Stanford University School of Medicine will investigate how diabetes increases a person’s vulnerability to infection with tuberculosis, or TB. Researchers are seeking participants for the study, which will look at type-2 diabetes and the body's immune response to the TB vaccine. ...> Full Article

Handicapping Tuberculosis May Be The Way To A Better Vaccine (8/6/2007)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator William R. Jacobs and colleagues have produced a genetically altered strain of tuberculosis (TB) that elicits a stronger immune response than the current vaccine, bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG). The new vaccine improves survival of infected animals and may help put scientists on track to replace BCG, which has been used for nearly a century although it is largely ineffective. ...> Full Article

Researchers Develop Prototype Vaccine That Could Provide Improved Protection Against Tuberculosis (8/5/2007)

Study in Journal of Clinical Investigation Demonstrates Better Protection Than Standard Vaccine Used Worldwide ...> Full Article

Trials Begin For 'Essential' New TB Vaccine (8/2/2007)

Clinical trials are underway with the first new vaccine against TB in over 80 years. If successful, the tests will have major implications for TB control and could lead to the development of a new vaccine ready to use within eight years. ...> Full Article

Researchers Find Way To Starve Tuberculosis (7/26/2007)

Sleuthing through soil has led UBC researchers to a key discovery about the world's most lethal infection -- tuberculosis (TB). ...> Full Article

Medical Researcher Determines Link between Foie Gras and Disease (6/22/2007)

University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine professor and researcher Alan Solomon, M.D., director of the Human Immunology and Cancer/Alzheimer's Disease and Amyloid-Related Disorders Research Program, led a team that discovered a link between foie gras prepared from goose or duck liver and the type of amyloid found in rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis. ...> Full Article

TB Test Offers Patients Quicker And Easier Diagnosis (6/3/2007)

A new test for diagnosing TB offers a quick and simple alternative to existing three-day methods, according to research published today in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. ...> Full Article

Researchers Develop Tuberculosis Vaccine (5/31/2007)

A Colorado State University research team has developed a novel vaccine to prevent tuberculosis, one of the world's most deadly diseases. The vaccine triggers the body's immunity in a novel way by activating specific immune system functions that enhance the response to the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. ...> Full Article