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 ...

David Ussery and Brian Delavan discuss bioinformatics into TB surveillance, presenting a new approach to tackling this ...

Virginia Allen is one of two of Staten Island's surviving Black Angels. She started working at Sea View, caring for incurable ...

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.

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.

Hence, there is a great potential of mannose-targeted drug delivery systems for the treatment of ... unilamellar vesicle. TB is the second most prevalent infectious disease after HIV, with which ...

The incidence and number of deaths from non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) disease have been steadily increasing globally. These lesser known “cousins” of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ... at risk ...

4 Health Protection Agency Midlands Laboratory, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Bordesley Green East, Birmingham, UK 5 Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine, Heart of England NHS ...

Objectives This systematic review aimed to summarise existing literature on the impacts of armed conflicts on tuberculosis burden and treatment outcomes. Design A systematic review following the ...

Background There is growing interest in using high-dose rifamycin (HDR) regimens in TB treatment, but the safety and efficacy of HDR regimens remain uncertain. We performed a systematic review and ...

The hospital contacted Eye See Me co-founder and co-owner Pamela Blair to purchase books for outpatients and patients with sickle cell disease. She put together a list of books for infants to 12th ...

The Kalamazoo County Health Department said that the individual who tested positive is isolated and undergoing treatment ... “Although tuberculosis can be a serious disease, it is a treatable ...