Respiratory Infections News

U.S. health care spending on respiratory conditions, especially chronic conditions like asthma and COPD, increased dramatically from 1996 to 2016, researchers reported in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

In February, the CDC released provisional guidance for the use of pretomanid as part of the bedaquiline, pretomanid and linezolid (BPaL) regimen to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis.

The results of a systematic review and meta-analysis suggest there is an increased risk for tuberculosis among people with cytomegalovirus infection, researchers reported in The Lancet.

Researchers uncovered gaps in the care cascade for latent tuberculosis in the United States, including that less than half of people diagnosed with latent TB in 2016 and 2017 initiated treatment.

In 2014, the United Nations initiated the End TB Strategy, setting a goal of ending tuberculosis by 2035.

The incidence of subclinical tuberculosis among people with HIV in a South African study was similar to the incidence of clinical TB, suggesting that guidelines recommending symptom-based screening may need to be updated, researchers said.

Treatment for children with nonsevere tuberculosis can be safely shortened from 6 to 4 months, according to the results of a study published this week in The New England Journal of Medicine.

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The addition of a digital chest X-ray to symptom-based screening doubled the yield of undiagnosed tuberculosis among inmates in South Africa compared with symptom-based screening alone, researchers reported.

According to a new report, global funding for tuberculosis research totaled $915 million in 2020 — less than half of the $2 billion goal set at the 2018 United Nations High-Level Meeting on TB.