New research has found that extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis is increasingly common and more deadly than previously known. Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis is a growing public health ...

Person-to-person transmission of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis, not the development of new resistance, may be the engine driving the spread of disease in South Africa, according to the ...

There’s more bad news on the antibiotic resistance front. A new study reveals that strains of tuberculosis that evade most of the drugs typically used to treat the bacterial infection have been ...

Only 11% of South African patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) had favorable outcomes 5 years after treatment, and 42% of those discharged from hospital continued to have ...

Your patients know about the man whose TB landed him in quarantine this spring. Are you up to speed on the latest developments surrounding TB? It’s not often that a single patient’s story appears on ...

An Atlanta lawyer with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis is under federal quarantine at a hospital in Denver. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is trying to determine how the ...

Why extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis worries health experts. — -- A woman with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) is currently being treated at the National Institute of ...

A woman who traveled from India is being treated at the National Institutes of Health for an almost impossible to cure form of tuberculosis called XDR TB. Here are answers to five top questions about ...

A highly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis has killed about 85% of South African HIV patients who have become infected, presenting one of the most worrisome problems in HIV and tuberculosis control, ...

Unwise antibiotic use is contributing to hardier strains of the deadly disease. August 30, 2012— -- Tuberculosis is growing more resistant to treatment worldwide, according to a study released ...

South African geneticists have decoded the genome of an extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis strain. Whether this will lead to better treatments is unknown, but it should help scientists develop ...

New research has found that XDR-TB is increasingly common and more deadly than previously known. Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is a growing public health threat that is only just ...