To effectively treat patients diagnosed with multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) (in 2010, WHO estimated that there were approximately 650,000 cases of MDR TB, 1 and there were 150,000 deaths ...

Drug-resistant tuberculosis threatens recent gains in the treatment of tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection worldwide. A widespread epidemic of extensively drug-resistant (XDR ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's biggest infectious disease killer with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) posing a particular threat to global health. A study shows that resistance to the new MDR-TB ...

There were an estimated 490,000 new cases of drug-resistant TB in 2016. Tuberculosis, a lung disease most often transmitted by breathing infected particles in the air, is the ninth leading cause of ...

CDC scientists tracing ordinary tuberculosis cases use genetic analysis to hunt for a chain of transmission that they might not catch through traditional shoe-leather epidemiology. The method has real ...

Worldwide, approximately 2 million children younger than 15 years of age are infected with multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis, with MDR tuberculosis developing in approximately ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Tuberculosis killed 1.6 million people in 2017 — more than 4,000 each day. Among its deadly attributes, TB is ...