Expanding beyond DOTS to stop TB. Primary tabs. View (active tab) Preview; 31 March 2006. Estimated reading time 22 minutes. This article originally appeared in HIV & AIDS treatment in practice, an ...

World TB Day: DOTS and its 5 basic measures to deal with tuberculosis. ... If you follow the full course of TB treatment, the disease can be treated (nearly 100%) in a span of 6 months.

India has the dubious distinction of having the highest number of tuberculosis (TB) cases in the world. TB, an age-old infectious disease, has continued to cast a long shadow over India's ...

Cape Town - When Cape Town opera star Sidwill Hartman is in full-throated song, it is hard to imagine that the 44-year-old singer was once a scrawny child with a disease that threatened to destroy his ...

Tuberculosis is completely curable through short-course chemotherapy. Treating TB cases who are sputum-smear positive (and who can therefore spread the disease to others) at the source is the most ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of humanity’s oldest and most persistent health challenges. Despite significant medical advances, this infectious disease continues to affect millions globally ...

New York City, with one of the highest TB rates in the U.S., found that video DOT was "just as effective" as traditional DOT, said the city's health commissioner.

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — An epidemiologist confirms there’s one case of Tuberculosis in the Peoria area. The person who has contracted the disease has been on a recovery treatment for quite some ...

The treatment of tuberculosis and control of the disease’s spread has been complicated worldwide by ... DOT for people with MDR-TB had a 77 percent lower rate of death when compared with ...

How does directly observed therapy (DOT) work in controlling tuberculosis? ... Drugs & Diseases CME & Education Academy Video Decision Point  Specialty: Multispecialty. Allergy & Immunology.

This is the first study to combine molecular genotyping techniques and drug susceptibilities to demonstrate that DOT for tuberculosis is associated with less initial drug resistance and less ...