New research has found that extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis is increasingly common and more deadly than previously known. Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis is a growing public health ...

Person-to-person transmission of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis, not the development of new resistance, may be the engine driving the spread of disease in South Africa, according to the ...

Why extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis worries health experts. — -- A woman with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) is currently being treated at the National Institute of ...

There’s more bad news on the antibiotic resistance front. A new study reveals that strains of tuberculosis that evade most of the drugs typically used to treat the bacterial infection have been ...

An Atlanta lawyer with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis is under federal quarantine at a hospital in Denver. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is trying to determine how the ...

South African geneticists have decoded the genome of an extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis strain. Whether this will lead to better treatments is unknown, but it should help scientists develop ...

Your patients know about the man whose TB landed him in quarantine this spring. Are you up to speed on the latest developments surrounding TB? It’s not often that a single patient’s story appears on ...

November 6, 2008 — Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) predicted poor treatment outcomes and long-term mortality in patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), according to the ...

In a retrospective study of 174 tuberculosis patients, patients with extensively-drug-resistant tuberculosis were almost eight times as likely to die as patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis ...

A woman who traveled from India is being treated at the National Institutes of Health for an almost impossible to cure form of tuberculosis called XDR TB. Here are answers to five top questions about ...

You'd think the emergence of a fatal disease—especially one that can be spread without physical contact—would be a big story. Yet a threatening new form of tuberculosis called extremely drug-resistant ...

One of the big questions about extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis is whether this severe form of the disease is on the rise due to a failure of medications or if it's spreading through the air. A ...