About two million people worldwide die of tuberculosis each year. There is an urgent need for new drugs and they will probably get easier to find in future – thanks to the new model MycPermCheck, which was developed at the University of Würzburg.

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A compound from the South African toothbrush tree inactivates a drug target for tuberculosis in a previously unseen way.

The vaccine candidates MTBVAC, developed by the University of Zaragoza and produced by BIOFABRI, and HBHA, developed by Institute Pasteur Lille and produced in collaboration with AERAS, have been awarded with financial support for further development.  BIOFABRI will receive $ 430,000 to support a PhaseI clinical trial carried out by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne. Institut Pasteur Lille, will receive $ 350,000 for HBHA to fund GMP production of HBHA and studies to select an adjuvant.

Tuberculosis patients who smoke respond to treatment much slower than patients who don’t smoke, new research has found.

Deaf or dead. Those were the two options offered to doctor Delene von Delft when she was diagnosed with multi- drug-resistant tuberculosis three years ago.

The number of cases of tuberculosis is increasing in Denmark, mostly the as result of the C2/1112-15 strain, and is the most comprehensive chain of infection in the country.

In the communiqué the health ministers place focus on tuberculosis, including multidrug-resistant TB and TB/HIV as major health threats in need of urgent attention.

Incidence of tuberculosis (TB) among HIV-positive heterosexual people in England and Wales declined significantly between 2002 and 2010, investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. The fall is attributed to changes in the epidemiology of HIV in the UK and increased uptake of antiretroviral therapy. The vast majority of TB diagnoses – 84% – involved people from sub-Saharan Africa.

Ukrainians infected with tuberculosis will now be forcibly hospitalized under court rulings.