Back in 2005, doctors at a remote hospital in the village of Tugela Ferry, South Africa, were puzzled when patients with HIV, who were initially responding well to antiretroviral drugs, began rapidly dying from tuberculosis.
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Drug Resistant Tuberculosis On The Rise
Published January 3, 2013 blogs , science , technology Leave a CommentTags: blogs, disease, epidemiology, health, science, SciTechDaily, technology, tuberculosis, virology
War of the Badgers Erupts in England
Published October 18, 2012 blogs , science , technology Leave a CommentTags: badger, blogs, conservation, disease, health, science, SciTechDaily, technology, tuberculosis, zoology
A cull of badgers starts next week in the UK to curb high rates of bovine tuberculosis. Image: A. Rouse/naturepl.com
The issue at hand is that the common badger, Meles meles, one of the largest predators left in the British Isles, while loved by the public, is a bane to farmers, as they infect cattle with bovine tuberculosis. The disease could cost the UK government $1.6 billion in control measures and compensation over the next decade.
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Tuberculosis Resistance to Backup Drugs Increases
Published August 31, 2012 blogs , science , technology Leave a CommentTags: antibiotics, blogs, disease, epidemiology, health, infection, science, SciTechDaily, technology, tuberculosis
According to a new study, more than 40% of tuberculosis infections that are resistant to front-line antibiotic treatments have also become resistant to some common backup drugs. Efforts to control tuberculosis are being hindered by the emergence of multi drug-resistant (MDR) strains, making it harder to combat.
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Highest Recorded Rates of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
Published February 17, 2012 blogs , science , technology Leave a CommentTags: blogs, epidemiology, extensively drug resistant, infectious, multi-drug resistant, report, science, SciTechDaily, strains, technology, totally drug resistant, tuberculosis, WHO, worldwide
Today the World Health Organization has released an updated report on the situation of drug-resistant tuberculosis around the world, and it’s reporting that drug-resistant TB rates are the highest ever recorded.
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Earliest Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Strains Were First Detected in Italy
Published January 14, 2012 blogs , science , technology Leave a CommentTags: blogs, cases, epidemiology, Italy, medicine, science, superbug, tdr, technology, totally drug resistant, tuberculosis
Contrary to what was previously believed, the earliest cases of the Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (TDR-TB) were not the current 12 known cases reported in Mumbai or the 15 cases in Iran from 2009, but rather two middle-aged women from Italy, who died several years after first contracting the disease.
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