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Category: Tuberculosis (TB)

Posted on January 17, 2020January 17, 2020

India’s TB control programme renamed to reflect its intent on ending TB

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).…

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Posted on January 16, 2020January 19, 2020

TB diagnostic test developed in India has high diagnostic accuracy, says WHO

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…

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Posted on November 30, 2019November 30, 2019

Combination therapy using malaria drug quickly clears TB

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…

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Posted on November 2, 2019

Stimulating two receptors on macrophages helps clear TB bacteria

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…

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Posted on October 26, 2019October 26, 2019

Novel way found to kill dormant TB bacteria in stem cells

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…

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Posted on August 31, 2019September 1, 2019

Cheap, filter-based kits developed for TB diagnosis, drug-resistance testing

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…

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Posted on August 19, 2019

Pretomanid: XDR-TB may soon become easily treatable

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…

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Posted on August 16, 2019August 18, 2019

Explainer: What makes the new drug-resistant TB medicine Pretomanid promising

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…

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