Tour lets public get up close for a look; Biocontainment lab safety features cited.
Byline: Donna Boynton GRAFTON - Atop a hill, surrounded by trees and protected by a steep grade, is the partially constructed regional biocontainment laboratory, a project funded by Tufts University and the National Institutes of Health. The building is virtually an onion of security and...

Advocates urge field burn warning.
Byline: Diane Dietz The Register-Guard Health authorities don't give the public fair warning so people can protect themselves from noxious smoke when farmers torch their fields, the foes of the agricultural practice said Thursday. The smoke is "highly damaging" to people with respiratory disease, the...

Natural reservoir, zoonotic tuberculosis & interface with human tuberculosis: an unsolved question.
Mycobacterium bovis is an important member of the M. tuberculosis complex. Although it is primarily recognized as an animal pathogen it can cause disease in humans too. Similarly, M. tuberculosis, though a human pathogen does infect animals. It is believed that as the human civilization has advanced...

Isolation of Mycobacterium bovis & M. tuberculosis from cattle of some farms in north India--possible relevance in human health.
Background & objectives: Infection due to Mycobacterium bovis typically occurs in cattle and animals transmit infection to each other. The choice of appropriate clinical specimen is very important for isolation of M. bovis and M. tuberculosis from cattle. The present study reports the isolation of M.tuberculosis and M. bovis...

Sputum conversion at the end of intensive phase treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis patients with diabetes mellitus or HIV infection.
Sir, Banu Rekha and colleagues (1) in their study found that at the end of intensive phase of tuberculosis treatment among sputum positive cases, the smear conversion rates were 58, 61, 62 per cent and culture conversion 86, 88 and 92 per cent respectively. Also, the patients...

Global tuberculosis control 2008: Surveillance, planning, financing.
Global tuberculosis control 2008: Surveillance, planning, financing (World Health Organization, Geneva) 2008. 304 pages. Price: CHF/US$ 40.00; in developing countries: CHF/US$ 28.00 ISBN 978-92-4-156354-3 This annual publication of WHO is the 12th Report on Global Tuberculosis Control situation in 2008 and has focus on surveillance, planning-and financing....

Mathematical model to simulate Tuberculosis disease population dynamics.
INTRODUCTION Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious bacteria disease caused by inhaling the tubercle bacillus in the droplet nucleus form. Like the common cold, it spreads through the air. An infected person may have latent TB infection or active TB infection. Only actively infected people who are sick...

Tuberculosis: Women, children worst hit.
Byline: Kounteya Sinha NEW DELHI: It's a menace that is making women lose their homes and forcing children to drop out of school. Tuberculosis has become one of India's worst enemies. Studies conducted on the socio-economic impact of TB have projected that over three lakh...

Tuberculosis pipeline holds promise for drug-resistant strain.
KEYSTONE, COLO. -- New drugs are desperately needed to address the growing problem of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis--and help appears to be on the way. Indeed, the drug development pipeline for anti-TB medications is remarkably full as a result of recent, greatly increased global attention to what had...

World Tuberculosis Day: 'I Am Stopping TB'.
EVERY year on March 24, World Tuberculosis (TB) Day is observed to build public awareness that TB remains an epidemic in many parts of the globe, causing millions of deaths each year, mostly in Third World countries. It was on this day, in 1882 that Dr. Robert...