In the early 20th century, these Black nurses came to New York City from the Jim Crow South to join the fight against the ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

Subgroup analyses based on HIV infection status found a strong protective effect of INH against TB among HIV-negative children (RR = 0.55, 95% CI 0.40, 0.75 p = 0.001), but no evidence of ...

Under the BioVersys and GSK collaboration agreement, GSK is evaluating the early bactericidal activity (EBA) of alpibectir-ethionamide (AlpE) in a pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) trial, in combination ...

In people aged 12 years or older with drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis, we conditionally recommend the use of a 4-month regimen of isoniazid, rifapentine, moxifloxacin, and pyrazinamide ...

The treatment of TB involves a combination of several antibiotics. These are aimed at reducing the risk of transmission, ...

and isoniazid (1951). Eradication of the disease depends on full use of drugs, following aggressive case finding. There are now 400,000 known TB victims in the U.S. (150,000 with active disease ...

Underlining the new innovations rolled out under the programme, Patel stated that ICMR has validated three indigenous ...

The summit aims to catalyze the development and implementation of innovative technologies, strategies, and community engagement models to accelerate the fight against tuberculosis (TB).

Two of the eight studies used INH for prevention of primary infection; three studies used it for secondary prevention of TB, and the remaining three for both primary and secondary prevention.

Streptomycin was the first antibiotic treatment to become available for TB, in the 1940s. However, the microorganism quickly became drug resistant. A second antibiotic, called isoniazid ...