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...

Expression of co-stimulatory molecules B7.1 & B7.2 on macrophages infected with various strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis & its influence on T-cell apoptosis.
Background & objectives: Activation of T cells is mediated through two critical signals provided by activated macrophages. The first signal is triggered when T cell receptor (TCR) binds to the major histocompatibility antigen (MHC/Ag) complex. The second signal is the interaction of co-stimulatory molecules with their respective ligands on...

Hot tub lung can mimic tuberculosis, sarcoidosis.
KEYSTONE, COLO. -- Hot tub lung is a common, frequently misdiagnosed, and particularly fascinating form of nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease, according to a researcher from the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver. Hot tub lung is believed to be a hypersensitivity pneumonitis caused by exposure to...

Features in tubercular meningoencephalitis diagnosis: 18 childhood cases.
Abstract: The aim of this research is to illustrate clinical and instrumental features of central nervous system tuberculosis (CNS-TB) in childhood in order to allow prompt diagnosis and adequate patient management. TB remains one of the most important communicable diseases and represents a major global health problem. Although pulmonary...

Rolling back malaria is possible.
Sir, With the substantial increase in resources from donors such as the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), the World Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the President's Malaria Initiative for rolling back malaria, the current goal to halve the malaria deaths...

NEW DRUG FIGHTS BACTERIAL INFECTIONS IN NOVEL WAY.
Over the course of the 20th Century, doctors waged war against infectious bacterial illness with the best new weapon they had: antibiotics. But the emergence of dangerous, multi-drug resistant strains of tuberculosis and other killer infections means that in the 21st century antibiotics are losing ground against...

Rare feat: Surgery minus transfusion.
Byline: Kounteya Sinha NEW DELHI: Football was Usanga Anikien's bread and butter. But the 35-year-old Kenyan footballer's dream was abruptly cut short when he was diagnosed with sequale of spinal TB -a crippling disease, resulting from tuberculosis of the chest. Confined to the wheelchair for...

India is world's TB capital.
Byline: Kounteya Sinha NEW DELHI: Over six lakh Indians, unaware that they suffer from tuberculosis, are spreading the disease among healthy individuals, seriously jeopardizing global efforts to halve new infection and death rates before 2015. India is the world's TB capital recording an estimated 1.9...

India found wanting as drug-resistant TB spreads.
Byline: Kounteya Sinha NEW DELHI: Drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading faster than what scientists had ever anticipated, with several countries reporting an unthinkably high rate of infection. According to WHO's latest surveillance report on drug-resistant TB, XDR or extremely drug resistant TB, which has no cure,...

Govt set to fight drug-resistant TB.
Byline: Kounteya Sinha NEW DELHI: With drugs commonly used to treat tuberculosis failing to cure an estimated 70,000 Indians annually, the country is finally getting serious about combating multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB). The health ministry is rolling out the DOTS Plus programme to manage MDR-TB...