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Transmission

Only people with active pulmonary or laryngeal tuberculosis are infectious to other people. People who have latent or extrapulmonary tuberculosis are not infectious. M. tuberculosis...

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Think TB

TB is one of the major killers in people with HIV. This publication brings together research on the management of TB in people with HIV....

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Transmission

People who have active TB – TB that the immune system has not been able to control – in their lungs can transmit the disease...

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ART and TB prevention

This edition explores what is known about the potential benefits and limits of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for TB prevention and control....

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TB transmission in healthcare settings and improving infection control

TB infection control in health care facilities is vital for the control of TB among people with HIV....

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Patients taking TB treatment may be potentially infectious for longer than previously thought

Patients taking directly observed therapy (DOTS) for tuberculosis (TB) may be potentially infectious for longer than previously thought, investigators report in the August 15th edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Moreover, the researchers found that many patients were TB culture-positive ...
10 August 2010 | Michael Carter
South African gold mines a 'TB factory', activist claims

The gold-mining sector came under heavy criticism from clinicians, ex-miners, advocacy groups and the Minister of Health for the tuberculosis crisis it faces at the recent South African TB Conference, held in Durban from 1 to ...
10 June 2010 | Lesley Odendal

Simple face masks could significantly prevent spread of TB to non-infected patients

(American Thoracic Society) Face masks worn by patients infected with tuberculosis (TB) may be able to significantly cut transmission rates to non-infected patients, according to a new study by researchers from the US and South Africa.
17 May 2011 | Eurekalert Inf Dis
The HIV and TB Prison Crisis in Southern Africa

In 1988, while Nelson Mandela was in prison, he contracted tuberculosis (TB). TB is common in prisons, with overcrowded cells and poor ventilation facilitating transmission. Mandela is now long free, but TB remains a threat to all prisoners - and to all South Africans.

23 July 2010 | Human Rights Watch HIV/TB
Zambia employs innovative techniques to stop spread of TB

The Center’s Christine Lubinski and Rabita Aziz describe visits to ZAMSTAR’s TB programs in Livingstone and Lusaka, Zambia, during a recent Congressional delegate trip to Africa.
09 September 2010 | Science Speaks: HIV & TB News
Prison overcrowding leading to TB spread in South Africa

Severe overcrowding in KwaZulu-Natal's prisons is contributing to the spread of HIV and tuberculosis and driving the high death toll in prisons.
02 September 2010 | AllAfrica

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TB transmission