Novel antibiotic BTZ-043 can also target TB bacteria hiding in dead lung tissue
Every year, 10 million people contract tuberculosis (TB), a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and approximately 1.5 million patients succumb to the disease. Treatment ...
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Bioinformatics into TB surveillance: A new approach to an ancient foe
David Ussery and Brian Delavan discuss bioinformatics into TB surveillance, presenting a new approach to tackling this ...
‘A story of triumph’: How work of the Black Angels helped lead to a cure for tuberculosis
Virginia Allen is one of two of Staten Island's surviving Black Angels. She started working at Sea View, caring for incurable ...
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Yes, there is a tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... administered in the U.S. because TB is rare in this country and the vaccine is also less effective than treatment regimens, the CDC says.
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Author spotlights Black nurses of tuberculosis epidemic at Barbara Bates Center book talk
The story of the Black nurses who stepped up to treat the tuberculosis epidemic in New York City at Sea View Hospital in Staten Island is dictated in Maria Smilios’ new book.