Science news articles about 'tuberculosis research'Inhaled tuberculosis vaccine may be more effective than injected vaccine
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 ... Researchers develop method for transmitting medical images via cell phones
... a wide range of applications, from detecting tumors to confirming signs of active tuberculosis infections to monitoring the health of developing fetuses during pregnancy.
The conventional medical ... Drug-resistant tuberculosis on the increase in the UK
... the National Surveillance System, involving 28 620 confirmed cases of tuberculosis.
Overall, the researchers found that the proportion of cases resistant to any first line drug had increased from 5. ... Glowing zebrafish help researchers track role of sugars in the cell
... just as easy to study the sugars on cells, in part to investigate their role in such diseases as tuberculosis and influenza. In the latter, the flu virus enters cells by way of hemagglutinin, a sugar- ... Tuberculosis strain may be linked to unpasteurised dairy
The incidence of a strain of tuberculosis (TB) called Mycobacterium bovis, or M. bovis, associated more often with cattle than humans, is increasing in San Diego and is concentrated mostly in ... Elucidating iron transport mechanisms in tuberculosis bug identifies new TB drug targets
... India have worked out the mechanism of iron uptake system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is considered to be one of the important drug targets.
Iron acquisition and regulation in intracellular ... Air pollution, smoking affect latent tuberculosis
... pollution and tobacco smoke plays a significant role in triggering tuberculosis infection, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The UAB study ... Vancouver researchers discover missing link between TB bacteria and humans
Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute have discovered how tuberculosis (TB) bacteria hide and multiply in the human body and are working ... New drug to stop tuberculosis epidemic
Researchers at the University of Manchester are developing a new drug against tuberculosis (TB), one of the oldest human infectious diseases, which is now threatening to reach epidemic proportions ... Source of drug-tolerant tuberculosis possibly behind TB relapses, intensity of treatment
... a potential cause of the relapses that can nonetheless occur. The researchers are the first to show that Mycobacterium tuberculosis can grow in surface-level bacteria clusters known as biofilms that ... Researchers call for independent body to monitor deaths in wars and other crises... and more
... recommendations in this week's PLoS Medicine.
"The panel recognised that many new and diverse tuberculosis vaccines are currently under development," says the lead author Professor Hanekom, of the ... Arizona State University research team working to decode TB
... Among those trying to decipher the origins and trajectory of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria responsible for TB, are three researchers in ASU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Graduate ... Research team working to decode TB
Tuberculosis may call to mind Old West consumptives and early 20th-century sanatoriums, yet according to the World Health Organisation, the disease took the lives of more than 1.5 million people ... Excavated Jericho bones may help Israeli-Palestinian-German team combat tuberculosis
Six-thousand year old bones excavated in Jericho may help a joint Israeli-Palestinian-German research group combat tuberculosis. According to Prof. Mark Spigelman of the Kuvin ... Studies show that diabetes increases risk of tuberculosis
... mellitus are at increased risk of developing active tuberculosis (TB), according to an analysis published in PLoS Medicine.
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Inhaled tuberculosis vaccine may be more effective than injected vaccine
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 ...Researchers develop method for transmitting medical images via cell phones
... a wide range of applications, from detecting tumors to confirming signs of active tuberculosis infections to monitoring the health of developing fetuses during pregnancy. The conventional medical ...Drug-resistant tuberculosis on the increase in the UK
... the National Surveillance System, involving 28 620 confirmed cases of tuberculosis. Overall, the researchers found that the proportion of cases resistant to any first line drug had increased from 5. ...Glowing zebrafish help researchers track role of sugars in the cell
... just as easy to study the sugars on cells, in part to investigate their role in such diseases as tuberculosis and influenza. In the latter, the flu virus enters cells by way of hemagglutinin, a sugar- ...Tuberculosis strain may be linked to unpasteurised dairy
The incidence of a strain of tuberculosis (TB) called Mycobacterium bovis, or M. bovis, associated more often with cattle than humans, is increasing in San Diego and is concentrated mostly in ...Elucidating iron transport mechanisms in tuberculosis bug identifies new TB drug targets
... India have worked out the mechanism of iron uptake system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is considered to be one of the important drug targets. Iron acquisition and regulation in intracellular ...Air pollution, smoking affect latent tuberculosis
... pollution and tobacco smoke plays a significant role in triggering tuberculosis infection, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The UAB study ...Vancouver researchers discover missing link between TB bacteria and humans
Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute have discovered how tuberculosis (TB) bacteria hide and multiply in the human body and are working ...New drug to stop tuberculosis epidemic
Researchers at the University of Manchester are developing a new drug against tuberculosis (TB), one of the oldest human infectious diseases, which is now threatening to reach epidemic proportions ...Source of drug-tolerant tuberculosis possibly behind TB relapses, intensity of treatment
... a potential cause of the relapses that can nonetheless occur. The researchers are the first to show that Mycobacterium tuberculosis can grow in surface-level bacteria clusters known as biofilms that ...Researchers call for independent body to monitor deaths in wars and other crises... and more
... recommendations in this week's PLoS Medicine. "The panel recognised that many new and diverse tuberculosis vaccines are currently under development," says the lead author Professor Hanekom, of the ...Arizona State University research team working to decode TB
... Among those trying to decipher the origins and trajectory of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria responsible for TB, are three researchers in ASU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Graduate ...Research team working to decode TB
Tuberculosis may call to mind Old West consumptives and early 20th-century sanatoriums, yet according to the World Health Organisation, the disease took the lives of more than 1.5 million people ...Excavated Jericho bones may help Israeli-Palestinian-German team combat tuberculosis
Six-thousand year old bones excavated in Jericho may help a joint Israeli-Palestinian-German research group combat tuberculosis. According to Prof. Mark Spigelman of the Kuvin ...Studies show that diabetes increases risk of tuberculosis
... mellitus are at increased risk of developing active tuberculosis (TB), according to an analysis published in PLoS Medicine. Searching for research over the past four decades containing data on the ...