Tuberculosis

Findings from Johns Hopkins University broaden understanding of tuberculosis

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, June 9th, 2009

According to a study from the United States, "Tuberculosis (TB) has played a central role in the history of biomedical science from Koch onwards. Research in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries yielded extremely valuable diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive tools for the control of TB."

"Following the development of short-course chemotherapy in the 1970s and 1980s, research into TB virtually evaporated. Despite the availability of an array of tools, TB control faltered, and the disease remains a major killer. The failure of the fruits of scientific research to control TB is a result of the shortcomings of the tools themselves as well the inadequate application of...

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Source: TB and Outbreaks Week (2009-06-09)

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