Paris: Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) has reached

Two new drugs hold promise for tuberculosis patients tuberculosis is a common and deadly disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It leads to 1.6 to 2 million deaths annually. Worse still, most of the bacterial strains are resistant to multiple drugs and their numbers are rising. The class of compounds called b-lactams, which also contains penicillin, is used to treat

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In a move to have more accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis, the Goa government in 2009 has adopted a new parameter to detect the patients.

The annual burden of Tuberculosis has risen to 5,800 in tribal areas out of which 3575 patients were successfully treated during last one year. This was stated by Dr Abdul Khaliq, Manager TB Control Programme Fata while addressing at the Advocacy Seminar held here on Saturday in connection with the World TB Day.

Sangrur: To detect tuberculosis (TB) at early stage, the Central TB Division, New Delhi, issued new directions yesterday according to which cough of two weeks

Siliguri, March 31: The German Leprosy and TB Relief Association (GLRA) India has chosen eight NGOs in Darjeeling to work in a public-private mix (PPM) project with the state health department to eradicate tuberculosis.

The GLRA, based in Germany, is an NGO working globally for the prevention of tuberculosis and leprosy.

Colombo city is the Tuberculosis (TB) breeding and distributing centre. Every year, 350 persons die from TB in Sri Lanka and 50 are from the Colombo city. Twenty percent of TB patients in Sri Lanka are from Colombo and 80 percent from all the other parts of the country, Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry sources said.

KALGACHIA, March 30

KOLKATA, March 29: The state government has accepted that misdiagnosis and erroneous treatment has helped the spread of multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis. The state health department is all set to issue an order directing the doctors to follow the norms of the revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in their treatment of patients.