The journal, Nature, has published an article detailing research into how the lineage of Mycobacteria tuberculosis affects its potential to become drug resistant. The research has found that an East Asian mycobacterial lineage is associated with increased drug resistance rates, when cultured in a laboratory, when compared to to strains from an Euro-American lineage. Read […]
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A ticket out
When journalist, Jo Chandler, visited the slums of Papua New Guinea to document the impact of tuberculosis, she did not expect to return home harbouring a multi drug-resistant form of the disease. In this fascinating article, Jo contrasts her own experience of TB diagnosis and treatment – in a well funded Australian health service – […]
Pre-entry screening extended
The Home Office has extended pre-entrant screening to a total of 67 high incidence countries in new immigration rules laid today. Migrants who want to enter the UK for more than six months, from the 67 listed countries, have to be screened before they are granted a visa for the UK. Immigration Minister Mark Harper […]
Blenheim Triathlon
Three teams from Oxford Immunotec hope to raise in excess of £300 for TB Alert in the Blenheim Triathlon. We would like to wish them all the best of luck. If you would like to support one, or all, of the OI teams, check out their JustGiving pages: Team A Team B Team C
Hail the modern hero who beat TB
The Scotsman reviews the life and work of Sir John Crofton and his famous ‘Edinburgh Method’, following the launch of Sir John’s memoirs, Saving Lives and Preventing Misery. Professor John Crofton took charge of the TB service in Edinburgh in 1951, at a time when the city was being decimated by the disease. Incidence in […]
Using biometrics to tackle TB
It is critically important for TB patients to complete a full course of prescribed medication, to ensure that they are fully cured and that the any TB bacteria do not return in a drug-resistant form. However, the long treatment regimen often makes it difficult for patients to complete their course of medication. In India, Microsoft […]
Urgent: we need your help to tackle drug resistant TB in Europe
Right now, there is an important opportunity to put drug-resistant TB higher on the political agenda of the EU. Please write to your MEP today, to ask them to sign the European Parliament Written Declaration on Drug-Resistant TB. To ensure stronger legislation on TB in the Europe region, 377 MEPs must sign their support for […]
EXPOSED: The Global Epidemic
Aeras, the product development partnership for TB vaccines and a longstanding TB Alert partner, have launched the first film of a must-see four-part series, EXPOSED: The Race Against Tuberculosis. The Global Epidemic tells the story of Natalie Skipper, who survived multi drug-resistant tuberculosis, but not before it turned her life upside down. Natalie’s story takes […]
Drug-resistant TB killed by vitamin C in lab tests
Vitamin C can kill multidrug-resistant TB in the lab, scientists at the Yeshiva University have announced in the journal, Nature Communications. In the laboratory studies, vitamin C appeared to trigger the production of free radicals which killed off the TB bacteria – including drug-resistant.This raises the hope that a treatment could be developed that works […]
Professional events update
Check out our Professional Events section for information about upcoming events on TB and Public Health issues from Public Health England, The Scottish Government and the Birmingham and Midland Institute.