Dr. Sen Pei Discusses Challenges in Forecasting Antimicrobial Resistance
In this interview, Dr. Sen Pei discusses the challenges in forecasting antimicrobial resistance, the focus of a paper published this ...
Tag: Tuberculosis
‘Test and Treat’ is Being Used to Tackle HIV. Why Not TB?
TB is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Not everyone who gets infected with the bacterium will get sick. ...
Like COVID, TB is a Pandemic and Must be Treated as an Emergency
In 1993, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared tuberculosis (TB) a global public health emergency. It urged nations to coordinate ...
Particles Carrying Viruses Likely Travel Farther Than Previously Thought
New research from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory raises questions about how far droplets, like those that carry the virus ...
COVID-19 Pandemic Threatens to Undo Years of Progress in Tuberculosis Control
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) recently released Global Tuberculosis Report for 2021 paints a dismal picture of the impact that ...
Emerging Infections Sentinel Networks Research Funding for Emergency Departments
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is providing a funding mechanism to assist emergency departments in their role as ...
Tuberculosis: The Forgotten Pandemic Relying on a 100-year-old Vaccine
By some estimates, 2 billion people are now infected worldwide, and in 2019, around 1.4 million people died from it. ...
Study Could Explain Tuberculosis Bacteria Paradox
Latent TB is an enormous global problem. While TB kills about 1.5 million people each year, the World Health Organization ...
Novel Inhaled Vaccine for Tuberculosis Shows Strong Immune Response in Mice
New method to assist fast-tracking of vaccines for pre-clinical tests Scientists in Australia have developed a method for the rapid ...
The Big 3 Infectious Diseases Besides COVID-19 Scientists Are Trying to Find a Vaccine For
More than 28 million people around the world have now contracted COVID-19, and more than 900,000 people have died. Research ...
What the Archaeological Record Reveals About Epidemics Throughout History
The previous pandemics to which people often compare COVID-19 – the influenza pandemic of 1918, the Black Death bubonic plague ...
Rutgers University Receives 2019 Edison Patent Award for Rapid Test for Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
A milestone patent for a rapid, automated test for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) and Rifampicin-resistant M. tuberculosis invented by two ...
More People in the U.S. Dying from Antibiotic-Resistant Infections than Previously Estimated
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released its updated Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States (AR Threats Report) ...
8th FIDSSA Congress – Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of Southern Africa
The 8th Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of Southern Africa FIDSSA Congress 2019 will be held at the Indaba Hotel ...
Antibiotic Resistance Could Take Us Back To the ‘Dark Ages’
It has been 30 years since a new class of antibiotic became available. And resistance has developed to all those ...
Latch Failure Causes Tuberculosis Spill at Johns Hopkins
Frozen tuberculosis spilled Thursday within the Johns Hopkins Cancer Research Building, creating a potential hazard after a latch failed on ...
Submit Your Suggestions for the NIAID Tuberculosis Strategic Framework
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is developing a strategic framework to advance tuberculosis (TB) research and ...
Novel Algorithm Approach to Fight the Spread of Diseases
Getting the right information to the right people at the right time can be vital in preventing the spread of ...
NIAID Seeks Support Services for Infectious Diseases Research
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is competing a support contract for scientific, professional and technical expertise ...
MRIGlobal Awarded Contract for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Quality Assessment Program
The National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has announced a new contract award in ...
