Items tagged with TB epidemiology

HIV co-infection influences natural selection on M. tuberculosis (post)

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health problem, with 10 million cases and 2 million deaths per year, according to the World Health Organization. The only available vaccine is effective in children but its effect wanes in older children and adults.

Migrants in Europe at risk of drug-resistant TB (post)

Migrants, refugees who are often in densely-populated, unsanitary conditions most at risk from new form of TB which cannot easily be cured with existing drugs.

Global rise of multidrug-resistant TB threatens to derail decades of progress (post)

New antibiotics are becoming available for the first time but without accurate diagnostics, clear treatment guidelines, and improved control efforts, their effectiveness could be rapidly lost.

CDC: TB news good and bad (post)

On the eve of World TB Day, the CDC says there is good news and bad news about tuberculosis in the U.S.

FATE: the new partnership to Fight Against TB in Central and Eastern Europe (post)

Central and Eastern Europe is a hotspot for drug-resistant TB and most countries in the region face similar threats and opportunities.

TB epidemiology: Bangladesh, Nigeria, Kenya, the Philippines, Burundi, Vietnam, Malaysia, Haiti, Portugal, Malta (post)

Articles present the current epidemiological situation of TB in Bangladesh, Nigeria, Kenya, the Philippines, Burundi, Vietnam, Malaysia, Haiti, Portugal and Malta.

MDR-TB treatment as prevention: The projected population-level impact of expanded treatment for MDR-TB (post)

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The risk of global epidemic replacement with drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains (post)

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Breaking down walls in Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric (post)

Household crowding as a potential mediator of socioeconomic determinants of TB incidence in Brazil (post)

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