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Study Reveals How Tuberculosis Bacteria Survive Airborne Journey
Tuberculosis bacteria rely on a family of genes that help them survive the challenging journey from one person's lungs to ...
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Rethinking the benefits of digital adherence technologies for tuberculosis treatment
Poor treatment adherence remains a major obstacle in national tuberculosis programmes globally. Digital adherence technologies offer novel opportunities to monitor and address poor adherence. Research ...
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Effect of digital adherence technologies on treatment outcomes in people with drug-susceptible tuberculosis: four pragmatic, cluster-randomised trials
Digital adherence technologies did not reduce poor treatment outcomes in the four countries investigated. The use of digital adherence technologies should be based on careful review of additional data ...
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Tuberculosis relies on protective genes during airborne transmission
Scientists discovered genes in the tuberculosis bacterium that becomes essential for the pathogen's survival when it's exposed to air through coughing. These genes could be targets for new therapies ...
Why increasing rates of tuberculosis in the UK and US should concern everyone
With one of the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in US history, Kansas has more to worry about than its recent Super Bowl ...
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As tuberculosis cases rise in the US and worldwide, health officials puzzle over the resurgence of a disease once in decline
(THE CONVERSATION) An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often ... While rare, there have been reports of TB transmission through bone graphs, in which healthy, donated bone ...