Studying the prevalence of HIV in TB patients
Published in The Hindu on March 22, 2007 Even as “Difficulties in working alongside the better-funded efforts to tackle AIDS permeate many aspects of TB prevention, treatment and research ……
Category: Tuberculosis
Editorial: A warning signal
Published in the Hindu on October 12, 2006 The discovery of a highly virulent strain — extremely drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB)–in KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa, and presented last month…
Extremely drug-resistant TB emerges
Published in The Hindu on September 28, 2006 “Drug-resistant TB has frequently been encountered in India and its presence has been known virtually from the time anti-TB drugs were introduced…
MDR-TB spreads less within households
Published in The Hindu on June 25, 2015 Unlike people with drug-susceptible TB, those with multi drug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) are less likely to transmit disease to others living in the…
