active TB Active disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, as evidenced by a confirmatory culture, or, in the absence of culture, suggestive clinical symptoms.

World TB Day: DOTS and its 5 basic measures to deal with tuberculosis Did you know tuberculosis can be completely treated with DOTS? Here's what you should know about this approach.

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 ...

Directly observed therapy — where a health professional watches someone take a medication — has been the standard of care for tuberculosis treatment in the United States since 2016. Now DOT ...

Some 36 million people have been cured of tuberculosis (TB) over the past 15 years through a rigorous approach to treatment endorsed by WHO.

But, he gave ringing testimony of his victory over tuberculosis when he performed recently at an event to highlight World TB Day - March 24 - and the government's programme to fight the disease.

Tuberculosis is an infectious airborne disease that develops in over 5,000 people in India every day and kills nearly 1000 persons. Moreover, India has been entitled as the country with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paid and presented by Cepheid. Every year, 10 million people contract tuberculosis (TB), with 1.5 million cases leading to death. Despite being a preventable and curable disease, TB is the world ...

If DOT is not more effective for managing tuberculosis than is self-supervision of therapy, then acquisition and transmission of drug resistant strains should be similar in both counties.