Mumbai: Although the Centre's aim to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) by the end of 2025 seems unlikely, the BMC, on the eve of ...

Biosafety risks are of concern for some of these tests. Based on a large body of ... for the rapid screening of patients at risk of MDR-TB. This was extended to 27 countries in May 2009 by UNITAID.

NHM sent SMS alerts to mobile subscribers on Friday, urging them to avail free testing at government health centres. The ...

Underlining the new innovations rolled out under the programme, Patel stated that ICMR has validated three indigenous ...

Their findings revealed that while MDR-TB incidence showed different trends over time, the overall estimated annual percentage change (EAPC) was 4.15% (95% uncertainty interval [UI]: 1.10–12.19% ...

Background: The tuberculosis burden in children exposed at home to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is unquantified. With limited access to MDR-TB treatment, likely millions of children ...

Taking note of the high incidence of Tuberculosis (TB) and increasing cases of Multi Drug Resistant (MDR) TB in Jammu, J&K ...

ICMR highlighted the need for affordable and scalable innovations in active case finding among asymptomatic individuals ...

Thousands of MDR-TB patients in Mumbai and the rest of Maharashtra, though, will need to wait a bit longer until the first or second week of March for BPaL. The importance of BPaL, a combination ...