An estimated 440 000 cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) occurred worldwide in 2008 (3•6% of all TB cases that year), but only 7% of these cases were identified and treated. Extensively ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's biggest infectious disease killer with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) posing a particular threat to global health. A study shows that resistance to the new MDR-TB ...

There were an estimated 490,000 new cases of drug-resistant TB in 2016. Tuberculosis, a lung disease most often transmitted by breathing infected particles in the air, is the ninth leading cause of ...

Worldwide, approximately 2 million children younger than 15 years of age are infected with multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis, with MDR tuberculosis developing in approximately ...

CDC scientists tracing ordinary tuberculosis cases use genetic analysis to hunt for a chain of transmission that they might not catch through traditional shoe-leather epidemiology. The method has real ...

Treating all household contacts of someone with tuberculosis (TB) helped prevent active TB disease across age groups in the real world, but the effectiveness was highest when treating individuals who ...

Although India's target to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) by 2025 appears challenging, Mumbai’s civic body, the BMC, shared encouraging progress on World TB Day. The BMC reported that the cure rates of ...