According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a tuberculosis infection-control program should consist of administrative controls, environmental controls and a respiratory-protection ...

Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), results in 1.5 million deaths every year, but as many as two billion people may be infected with Mtb and yet remain ...

“The intention to screen is the intention to treat.” The most important statement of most tuberculosis (TB) control strategies! Of all population groups, the above statement is most relevant to older ...

Tuberculosis outbreak hits a San Franscisco high school, with 3 active TB cases and over 50 latent infections. Health ...

Produced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), this digitally colorized scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image, depicts a grouping of red-colored, rod shaped, ...

In 2005, 8.8 million people worldwide became infected with tuberculosis. That's a staggering number, but new cases of tuberculosis went up by just 70,000, which signals that the global TB epidemic is ...

Directly observed therapy — where a health professional watches someone take a medication — has been the standard of care for tuberculosis treatment in the United States since 2016. Now DOT, as it’s ...

Though tuberculosis is rare in the United States as compared to developing countries, the region has some of the highest rates in the state.

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The immune system remains seriously out-of-whack—in an inflammatory state of overactivation and impaired ...

The chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Control, Hon. Amobi Ogah has said that the House is set to bolster its advocacy for more government ...