by Claudia Caruana and Ruth Douglas, SciDev.Net More funding is needed to combat Koch’s bacillus, the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis. Credit: NIAID, ( CC BY 2.0 ) Taking a common antibiotic could more than half the risk of children becoming sick with multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), according to findings presented this week at a conference...
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TB prevention has relied on the same vaccine for 100 years. It’s time for innovation
by Bavesh Kana, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain TB is one of the oldest infectious diseases in recorded history. Most of the people who are ill with TB live in low- and middle-income countries where this disease is one of the leading causes of death. This is particularly distressing given the fact that TB is...