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Protection conferred by BCG vaccine against novel coronavirus is an interesting study and a plausible hypothesis but has been done early in the course of an epidemic and when the…
A 26-week treatment of 109 XDR-TB and MDR-TB patients with three oral drugs — bedaquiline, pretomanid, and linezolid — showed 90% success rate. There were seven deaths and two had…
Truenat, a molecular test to diagnose pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB and rifampicin-resistant TB, has high diagnostic accuracy, says WHO. Truenat was developed in India. It can be used as an…
Changing the route of BCG vaccine administration from intradermal to intravenous and using a higher dosage showed vast improvement in vaccine efficacy. Nine of the 10 animals that received the…
IISc researchers have discovered the mechanism by which TB bacteria develop tolerance to TB drugs. They found a combination of malaria and TB drug can prevent the bacteria from developing…
Curcumin was found to enhance the efficacy of the BCG vaccine by increasing the number of central memory cells. Curcumin also helps in the activation of innate immune cells known…
Three cheap, filter-based kits developed by a multi-institutional team and an industry partner improves the sensitivity of LED fluorescence microscopy by 5%, enable transport of sputum samples at ambient conditions…
Though the total number of people with XDR-TB and treatment intolerant or non-responsive MDR-TB who will require the new anti-TB drug Pretomanid may not be high, these are people who…
