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Complete makeover in fight of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

7 Sep 2018 7:07 PM by Bhupendra Singh Chundawat

Several new medicines have been found to be more effective than traditional ones used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), according to a new international collaborative study led by Dr. Dick Menzies, senior scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal. These findings precipitated a complete overhaul of worldwide TB … Read more

How damaging immune cells develop during tuberculosis

31 Aug 2018 3:37 AM by Bhupendra Singh Chundawat

Insights into how harmful white blood cells form during tuberculosis infection point to novel targets for pharmacological interventions, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Valentina Guerrini and Maria Laura Gennaro of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, and colleagues. Foam cells are a type of white blood cell, known as … Read more