Tuberculosis patients can reduce transmissability by inhaling interferon through a nebulizer
Monday, September 14, 2009 - 23:49
in Health & Medicine
New York, NY (September 14, 2009): 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.