A new way to classify tuberculosis (TB) that aims to improve focus on the early stages of the disease has been presented by an international team involving researchers at UCL (University College ...

A worldwide health problem, tuberculosis kills more people than any other bacterial infection. The World Health Organization estimates that two billion people are infected with TB, and that two ...

March 19, 2012 — The risk classification for nucleic acid–based tests is being downgraded from class 3 (high risk) to class 2 (moderate risk) by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which will ...

A new way to classify tuberculosis (TB) that aims to improve focus on the early stages of the disease has been launched by an international team including researchers from the London School of Hygiene ...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered a promising new class of antibiotics that could aid efforts to overcome drug-resistance in tuberculosis (TB), a global killer. The ...

Scientists at Brown University and MIT have figured out how an emerging class of antibiotics binds to the bacterium that causes tuberculosis--a discovery that could lead to new therapeutics to fight ...

New clinical trial results presented by TB Alliance at the Union World Conference on Lung Health show that the novel ...

Eighty years after the discovery of penicillin, researchers say they are on the verge of developing a new class of antibiotics. Publishing in the Oct. 17 issue of the journal Cell, scientists at ...

(Philadelphia, PA) - A worldwide health problem, tuberculosis kills more people than any other bacterial infection. The World Health Organization estimates that two billion people are infected with TB ...

Scientists have discovered a promising new class of antibiotics that could aid efforts to overcome drug-resistance in tuberculosis (TB), a global killer. The drugs increased survival of mice infected ...