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Posted on April 14, 2018April 14, 2018

IGIB shows how fat cells protect TB bacteria from oxidative stress

IGIB researchers found that genes responsible for iron intake were less expressed in TB bacteria found in fat cells. The decreased expression provides protection to TB bacteria from iron-mediated oxidative stress.…

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Posted on March 13, 2018March 14, 2018

ICMR wins the 2017 Kochon Prize for TB research

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has won the Stop TB Kochon Prize for excellence in TB research and development. The $65,000 Prize is awarded annually by Stop TB Partnership to individuals and/or…

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Posted on January 20, 2018January 20, 2018

Vitamin C improves the efficacy of TB drugs, AIIMS researchers find

AIIMS researchers have found that adding vitamin C as a nutritional supplement while treating drug-sensitive tuberculosis patients with first-line TB drugs will boost the efficiency of treatment. It led to…

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Posted on January 16, 2018January 16, 2018

WHO revises advice on use of delamanid drug in MDR-TB patients

In a Phase III trial, delamanid drug was found to be safe but the cure rate and mortality rate were not different between the group that received the delamanid drug…

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Posted on November 2, 2017November 2, 2017

A glimmer of hope as India’s war on TB gets more funding

There is a glimmer of hope with India registering a slight drop in the number of new tuberculosis cases and TB deaths in 2016 compared with 2015. From an estimated…

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Posted on July 17, 2017July 17, 2017

A looming threat of tuberculosis in children

The RNTCP guidelines on contact screening are heeded mostly in the breach. About 5,500 of over 76,000 children tested in nine Indian cities have been diagnosed with tuberculosis, 9% of…

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Posted on July 9, 2017July 9, 2017

India wants to eliminate TB by 2025 but falters on several critical fronts

In 2015, India accounted for nearly 2.8 million (27%) of the 10.4 million new tuberculosis (TB) cases in the world, and 0.48 million (29%) of the 1.8 million TB deaths…

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Posted on July 8, 2017July 8, 2017

IISc researchers’ quest to make a common antibiotic more effective against TB

Bacteria develop resistance against a drug only when they are exposed to it or when the drug is misused. But now, a team of researchers from India has found whether…

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