Migrants should be screened for latent tuberculosis to prevent the disease becoming active and reduce the risk of transmission to others, an infectious diseases specialist says.

Duke University, Durham, N.C., has been awarded $2 million to initiate a new clinical research network focused on antibacterial resistance. Total funding for the leadership group cooperative agreement award could reach up to $62 million through 2019. Funding is provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.

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Based on the survey report findings, the Treatment Action Group and Global TB Community Advisory Board and other civil society members have found that Indian doctors are replacing the banned serological tests with Qiagen’s QuantiFERON-TB Gold.

Qiagen's response to the open letter sent by TAG, TB CAB and India CAB re: Marketing and use of QuantiFERON-TB Gold for active TB in India and high TB burden countries.

“South Africa is faced with a dual HIV-TB epidemic where the high rate of HIV infection is fuelling the tuberculosis or ‘TB’ epidemic. In addition to this, increasing numbers of people are becoming infected with drug-resistant TB strains,” says Dr Bavesh Kana Head of the Wits University node of the DST/DRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research.

Click the below NPR broadcast link to hear the story of a Moldovan family's struggle with TB.

Click the below NPR broadcast link to hear the story of a Boston family's struggle with TB.

My favourite patient lies dying in my arms.

Tuberculosis (TB) is second only to HIV/AIDS as the greatest killer worldwide. Unfortunately, the increase in number of drug Resistant Tuberculosis cases and  HIV currently constitutes a major source of worry. But, Dr Joshua Olusegun Obasanya, Coordinator, National TB and Leprosy Control Programme, however, assured in this interview with Sade Oguntola that work is ongoing to tackle the disease from all ends.