Tuberculosis patients can reduce transmissability by inhaling interferon through a nebulizer
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 06:28
in Health & Medicine
A new 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 fewer bacilli in the lungs and less inflammation, thereby reducing the transmissibility of tuberculosis in the early phase of treatment.