Science news articles about 'drug resistant tb'

Following successful clinical trials of a new tool to diagnose drug-resistant TB, the WHO has endorsed its use in all affected countries.

... of treating 1.6 million patients with MDR-TB by 2015. Pilot projects of MDR-TB ... improved tools for testing patients to see if they have drug-resistant TB clinical trials of simplified and shorter ...

... only 8.5% of the 118 admissions to the HIV-TB ward during the 505-day study ... TB control by ensuring that patients with drug-resistant TB are identified and treated effectively and quickly. The results ...

... background information. "In recent years, drug-resistant TB has emerged as an expanding threat, with an estimated ... two times greater than among MDR-TB cases and more than six-times greater than among ...

... AIDS pandemic and the emergence of Mtb strains resistant to standard antibiotic treatment. In the Science paper ... 2008 that 15 percent of multi-drug resistant TB cases in Ukraine, for example, were XDR ...

A mixture of two drugs has wiped out extensively drug-resistant TB in the laboratory and clinical trials are planned.

... -related deaths in 2005. Drug-resistant TB is caused by inconsistent or partial treatment, when patients ... 99 per cent – compared with acquired resistance due to treatment failure. "Our results imply ...

Drug resistant tuberculosis is posing a growing threat in the UK, say experts.

Multidrug-resistant TB needs more research to equip healthcare workers with the right tools, write Frank G. J. Cobelens and colleagues.

The death sentence that too often accompanies a diagnosis of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) can be commuted if an individualized outpatient therapy program is followed - even in ...

... of the world, however, patients with XDR-TB and other drug-resistant forms of the disease are confined against their will ... of treatment, 60.4 percent in the XDR-TB group were cured; 66.3 percent with ...

About 60 per cent of the patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis can be cured by combining five different drugs, says a study.

... resistant to current antibiotics. In particular, the results could lead the way to new treatments for tuberculosis that involve shorter courses of therapy and are effective against drug-resistant TB.

A new report suggests that the number of cases of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in the U.S. has declined in the past fifteen years, but new cases continue to be reported. Researchers note ...

... high levels of drug-resistant TB. According to the authors, "The prevalence of drug resistance varied greatly ... toxic and less effective second-line drugs and infected patients are less likely to survive ...