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India has changed the name of the TB control programme. It is no longer known as the Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) but as National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP).…
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…
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…
Researchers from IIT Ropar and CSIR-IMTECH have found that stimulating two specific receptors found on the macrophages helps in killing TB bacteria. Once activated, the macrophages eliminate the bacteria through…
Delhi-based researchers have found that TB bacteria promote rapid synthesis of lipids inside mesenchymal stem cells and hide within the lipid droplets so created. They found that TB bacteria hijack the…
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…
When used in combination with bedaquiline and linezolid, the newly approved pretomanid drug for MDR-TB and XDR-TB had an overall treatment success rate of about 90%. Besides better effectiveness, the…
