Science news articles about 'pulmonary tuberculosis'

... tuberculosis infections. The results from the study also found that males are more susceptible than females. Pulmonary tuberculosis is a contagious lung disease caused by a bacterium known as ...

... study published in the September 15, 2009, issue of PLoS ONE found that patients with cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis receiving anti-TB medications supplemented with nebulized interferon-gamma have ...

... infection have a less severe illness. The current vaccine is about 70 percent protective against deaths or meningitis from tuberculosis and about 50 percent protective against pulmonary tuberculosis.

... against infection with diverse M. tuberculosis strains in the mouse model of pulmonary tuberculosis and suggest that strain-specific resistance to BCG-induced protective immunity may be uncommon," say ...

... TB," she added. "Many of the bugs are resistant to practically everything." At the outset of human pulmonary tuberculosis, the inhaled bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) is gobbled up by immune ...

Older people suffer delayed tuberculosis treatment. A Taiwanese study of 78,118 pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) cases, reported in the open access journal BMC Public Health has found that older people ...

... agents reflected by frequency and length of treatment, particularly in more severe forms of pulmonary tuberculosis, may be associated with an increased risk of relapse". The dosage of RMP ...

... did not fulfill the requirements for a stand-alone diagnostic test for pulmonary tuberculosis, the researchers speculate that it may still be of some use, "In our opinion, further investigations are ...

... Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. "In this study, we showed that a differentiation between active pulmonary tuberculosis and LTBI is possible by the ELISpot test," said principal investigator ...