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South Africa: Scientist Wins Award for TB Research
Cape Town :: South Africa | 29 days ago
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South African scientist Valerie Mizrahi from the University of Cape Town's Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine has been awarded the Grand Prix Christophe Merieux Prize by the Institute de France in Paris for her tuberculosis
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South Africa: UCT Researchers Contribute to Key Finding to Help Fight TB
Cape Town :: South Africa | 1 month ago
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B 8 April 2013 press release A team at the University of Cape Town has led research to pinpoint the transporter of vitamin B12 in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB)...A team of scientists from the Molecular
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Tuberculosis – the risk of spreading on the increase
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 2 months ago
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Although 13,000 patients should have been yearly identified according to the estimates of the World Health Organization, the number that the hospital system has been yearly identified is 10,000, said Dr. Sudath Samaraweera, Deputy Director of the
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Fast New Test Could Help Nip Leprosy in the Bud
Baton Rouge :: LA :: USA | 3 months ago
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Fast New Test Could Find Leprosy Before Damage Is Lasting Published: February 19, 2013 A simple, fast and inexpensive new test for leprosy offers hope that, even in the poorest countries, victims can be found and cured before they become permanently
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Leprosy awareness needed
Suva :: Fiji Islands | 4 months ago
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The day is observed internationally on January 30 or its nearest Sunday with the aim of creating public awareness and also commemorating those who toiled hard to care and remember patients affected with the disease. Ministry of Health deputy
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Armadillos, Leprosy, and... You?
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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The lovable armored creature that is the armadillo carries with it leprosy, a disease stigmatized by mankind throughout history. Can humans actually contract leprosy from a these tank-like wonders of nature? Leprosy Under Their Shells Not all
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Tall, thin women more susceptible to Mycobacterial disease
Mumbai :: India | 4 months ago
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Researchers at National Jewish Health have revealed that tall, thin women face a greater risk of infection with nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), cousins of the organism that causes tuberculosis. Women with NTM infections also showed a weakened
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Currents | Books: Margaret Roach's Second Memoir About Rural Life and Gardening
New York City :: NY :: USA | 4 months ago
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Currents Books Tips From a Backyard on a Dirt Road Published: January 16, 2013 Patricia Wall/The New York Times Margaret Roach, the garden writer and blogger who lived out the fantasy of not only making it to the top (editorial director of Martha
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Biolog's Phenotype MicroArray Technology Employed by the UK AHVLA to Make Breakthrough Discoveries on the Tuberculosis Bacterium
Kingsville :: TX :: USA | 4 months ago
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reported breakthrough progress in understanding the metabolic and phenotypic properties of the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its close relative, Mycobacterium bovis. Link to article: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.
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Janssen wins FDA approval for pulmonary multi-drug resistant tuberculosis drug
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
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The surrogate endpoint of time to sputum culture conversion in the TMC207-C208 Study 1 and Study 2 is the basis for the accelerated approval of the diarylquinoline antimycobacterial drug, Sirturo. MDR-TB, which is a more difficult to treat form of TB
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