Tuberculosis began to decline with the invention of the tuberculosis vaccine. Statistics show that the problem resurfaced with the HIV epidemic and the current crisis of drug resistant tuberculosis.
Newly developed treatment for tuberculosis offers fresh hope for thousands of TB patients, reveals a new study.
Tuberculosis (TB) bacteria are killed effectively by higher doses of rifampin, one of the most potent of the four TB therapy drugs currently used to cure the disease
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment in children is found to be successful when treated with second-line MDR-TB drugs. Malnutrition is another factor that affects the treatment outcome