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Tuberculosis Medication

Wed, 2010-03-10 11:23
 Tuberculosis Medicationwww.bestonhealth.comBest on Health provides tuberculosis treatment related information including symptoms and risk factors.Tuberculosis is completely curable by administering anti-tuberculosis therapyPosted by shaileshsmith to Medication Tuberculosis on Wed Mar 10 2010 at 11:23 UTC | info | related

Buy Ethambutol Online - No Prescription Needed - Cheapest Prices

Wed, 2010-03-10 11:16
 Buy Ethambutol Online - No Prescription Needed - Cheapest Priceswww.olark.comMyambutol is an antibacterial drug and a bacteriostatic drug. It's generic name is Ethambutol. It is used to treat tuberculosis & used in almost all the combinations of drugs to treat TB.Posted by DeniseMeds to Tuberculosis ethambutol bacteriostatic antibacterial Myambutol on Wed Mar 10 2010 at 11:16 UTC | info | related

Timing of Initiation of Antiretroviral Drugs during Tuberculosis Therapy

Wed, 2010-03-10 08:00
 Timing of Initiation of Antiretroviral Drugs during Tuberculosis TherapyTiming of initiation of antiretroviral drugs during tuberculosis therapySalim S. Abdool Karim et al.The New England Journal of Medicine 362 (8), 697-706 (25 Feb 2010)info:pmid/20181971 | info:doi/10.1056/NEJMoa0905848Posted by mattprice and 2 others to Tuberculosis HIV on Thu Feb 25 2010 at 07:26 UTC | info | related

Cell - Genome-wide Analysis of the Host Intracellular Network that Regulates Survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Mon, 2010-03-08 04:17
 Cell - Genome-wide Analysis of the Host Intracellular Network that Regulates Survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosiswww.cell.comWe performed a genome-wide siRNA screen to identify host factors that regulated pathogen load in human macrophages infected with a virulent strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Iterative rounds of confirmation, followed by validation, identified 275 such molecules that were all found to functionally associate with each other through a dense network of interactions. This network then yielded to a molecular description of the host cell functional modules that were both engaged and perturbed by the pathogen. Importantly, a subscreen against a panel of field isolates revealed that the molecular composition of the host interface varied with both genotype and the phenotypic properties of the pathogen. An analysis of these differences, however, permitted identification of those host factors that were invariantly involved, regardless of the diversification in adaptive mechanisms employed by the pathogen. Interestingly, these factors were found to predominantly function through the regulation of autophagy.Posted by NatureRevMicrobiol to innate immunity cell biology siRNA Autophagy Tuberculosis tb on Mon Mar 08 2010 at 04:17 UTC | info | related

Cell - TB: Screening for Responses to a Vile Visitor

Mon, 2010-03-08 04:15
 Cell - TB: Screening for Responses to a Vile Visitorwww.cell.comMycobacteria, the pathogens that cause tuberculosis and leprosy, establish long-term infections in host macrophages. Recent studies, including two genetic screens reported in this issue of Cell (Kumar et al., 2010; Tobin et al., 2010,Kumar et al., 2010; Tobin et al., 2010), reveal that virulent mycobacteria evade the host immune system by stimulating production of anti-inflammatory molecules and inhibiting autophagy.Posted by NatureRevMicrobiol to innate immunity inflammation Autophagy mycobacteria Tuberculosis tb on Mon Mar 08 2010 at 04:15 UTC | info | related

Tuberculosis and air travel: a systematic review and analysis of policy : The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Mon, 2010-02-22 19:01
 Tuberculosis and air travel: a systematic review and analysis of policy : The Lancet Infectious Diseaseswww.thelancet.comWHO international guidelines for the control of tuberculosis in relation to air travel require—after a risk assessment—tracing of passengers who sat for longer than 8 h in rows adjacent to people with pulmonary tuberculosis who are smear positive or smear negative. A further recommendation is that all commercial air travel should be prohibited until the person has two consecutive negative sputum smears for drug-susceptible tuberculosis or two consecutive cultures for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. In this Review I examine the evidence put forward to support these recommendations and assess whether such an approach is justifiable. A systematic review identified 39 studies of which 13 were included. The majority of studies found no evidence of transmission. Only two studies reported reliable evidence of transmission. The analysis suggests that there is reason to doubt the value of actively screening air passengers for infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and that the resources used might be better spent addressing other priorities for the control of tuberculosis.Posted by NatureRevMicrobiol to airplanes travel Tuberculosis tb on Mon Feb 22 2010 at 19:01 UTC | info | related

Study - Health Rules on Flying With TB Too Strict - NYTimes.com - on article in Lancet Infect Dis

Mon, 2010-02-22 18:59
 Study - Health Rules on Flying With TB Too Strict - NYTimes.com - on article in Lancet Infect Diswww.nytimes.comProvocative new research suggests international rules that bar potentially infectious tuberculosis patients from flying are too stringent and airline passengers are really at little risk from catching TB from a fellow traveler. Global and U.S. health authorities also go too far in advising testing of passengers and crew on long flights when an infected flier is discovered, said the researcher, Dr. Ibrahim Abubakar, in a paper published in a British medical journal. The paper is controversial. U.S. health officials disagree, and a prominent TB expert says the findings are based on paltry data and current guidelines are appropriate. Abubakar chaired a European scientific panel that looked at tuberculosis and air travel. His paper, released Sunday, analyzes 13 earlier studies of 4,300 airline passengers from six countries. He concluded that only two studies offered convincing evidence of an infected passenger spreading the disease to others. He counted only 10 infections diagnosed in thousands of passengers who flew with infected travelers. The paper mentions what may be the most famous incident of a TB-infected airline passenger: Andrew Speaker, a Georgia lawyer with a drug-resistant form of TB who ignored government advice and flew to and from Europe for his wedding and honeymoon in 2007. Hundreds of passengers who traveled with him were tested, and none was found to have tuberculosis, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said.Posted by NatureRevMicrobiol to airplanes tb Tuberculosis travel on Mon Feb 22 2010 at 18:59 UTC | info | related