"Targeting treatment of 'core groups' as a way to reduce community-wide transmission is common with diseases like HIV and malaria, but is less accepted as a mantra for TB control," said David ...

tuberculosis. This raises the possibility that the clustered growth of mycobacteria could represent biofilms harboring drug-tolerant persisters.

New antibiotics which target ... against tuberculosis, a disease that still kills more people worldwide than any other infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The U.S. Government is the leading bilateral donor for global tuberculosis (TB) control. Over the past 13 years ... However, as Ms. Schippers noted, TB is a moving target; and the rise of multi-drug ...

set the target of ending tuberculosis (TB) as a global public health threat by 2030. Based on the most recent surveillance data published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ...

(Mujeeb Faruqui/Hindustan Times) India’s ongoing TB programme is inadequate, the NSP says, seeking five times the funding allocated to TB control over ... an ambitious target–reducing the ...

SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh government has set the target ... TB patients seek treatment from private sector which is a big number,” he added. Thakur said that Revised National Tuberculosis Control ...

“Targeting treatment of ‘core groups’ as a way to reduce community-wide transmission is common with diseases like HIV and malaria, but is less accepted as a mantra for TB control,” said ...