Respiratory Infections News

Enrollment has begun for the first phase 1 clinical trial of a tuberculosis drug candidate since 2009, according to a press release.

The incidence of human Mycobacterium bovis disease in California has not decreased, and the proportion of tuberculosis cases resulting from M. bovis has increased further beyond the U.S. average, according to recent findings.

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College in Beijing have found tuberculin skin testing may be overestimating the prevalence of latent tuberculosis in China.

Patients with advanced HIV and tuberculosis who experience tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome or early death had distinct levels of inflammatory biomarkers before and after initiating ART, according to researchers from the University of Pennsylvania.

Substance abuse, incarceration and homelessness were among the characteristics of tuberculosis cases that had precipitated outbreaks between 2002 and 2011, according to researchers from the CDC and Emory University.