肺结核是一种可防可治的疾病，尽管它在全球范围内仍然造成严重的健康问题，但通过科学的预防措施和规范的治疗，许多病例是可以成功治愈的。社会各界应共同努力，提高公众对肺结核的认知，及时发现和治疗感染者，以减少肺结核的传播和对公共健康的威胁。同时，政府和医疗 ...

For centuries, it was believed that tuberculosis spread primarily when a vulnerable person spent hours in a poorly ventilated ...

普托马尼是全球结核病联盟开发的新一代抗结核药物，于2019年获美国 FDA 批准上市。作为一种全新的硝基咪唑类化合物，普托马尼具有独特的多重作用机制，既能在有氧环境下抑制分枝杆菌酸的生物合成，阻碍细胞壁合成，杀死正在复制的结核分枝杆菌，又能在厌氧环境下释放一氧化氮，对非复制菌产生呼吸毒性作用，同时还能通过靶向戊糖磷酸化途径，造成磷酸戊糖的积累，导致甲基乙二醛的毒性蓄积，使细胞生长停滞。

Infectious disease specialists note next-generation sequencing as game changer in TB detection: Nandita Vijayasimha, Bengaluru Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 08:00 Hrs [IST] Infectious d ...

For centuries, it was believed that tuberculosis spread primarily when a vulnerable person spends hours in a poorly ventilated space with someone infectious. But new findings suggest that much TB ...

In addition, approximately 9% of MDR TB cases are believed to be extensively drug-resistant (XDR), which entails additional resistance to any fluoroquinolone and to at least one injectable second ...

Learn about the primary ways tuberculosis spreads through airborne transmission, high-risk settings, and effective prevention ...

representing approximately 5% of all TB cases worldwide. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected in at least 55 countries worldwide. These data substantiate the need for ...

tuberculosis. Achieving this goal will, however, require overcoming the still perplexing phenomenon of persistence. To effectively treat and control current MDR- and XDR-TB cases, physicians and ...

Conventional TB diagnosis takes 4-6 weeks [8], causing unacceptable delays. Moreover, DOTS requires patients to collect ...

But Speaker was not aware of it till late. Until a few weeks ago, many Americans had never heard of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB. But Speaker got plenty of press as he was ...