A Johnson & Johnson research team identified a new compound known as R207910 that kills the M.
tuberculosis bacterium by inhibiting the cell's energy - producing machinery.
Not exact matches
TB disease is caused
by the
bacteria Mycobacterium
tuberculosis, is spread through the air, and can lead to violent cough attacks involving spitting up blood.
n many developing countries, a significant fraction of the
tuberculosis burden comes potentially from the
tuberculosis bacteria carried
by animals, essentially cattle.
The fact that this
bacterium is found in cattle means that these animals can be a reservoir for human
tuberculosis and that humans can become infected with both M. bovis and M.
tuberculosis by drinking unpasteurised milk and eating meat that has not been properly tested.
TB, which is caused
by the
bacterium Mycobacterium
tuberculosis, exploded in Russia and other former Soviet nations in the early 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its health system.
Current treatments against the
tuberculosis - causing
bacteria include prodrugs, such as ethionamide, which are activated
by a bacterial enzyme.
Professor De Voss said the scale of the threat, compounded
by the emergence of increasingly drug - resistant strains of
bacteria, meant it was vital to find new ways to combat
tuberculosis.
New research suggests the
bacteria that cause
tuberculosis alter their metabolism to combat exposure to antimicrobials, and that these metabolic «escape pathways» might be neutralized
by new drugs to shorten the troublesome duration of therapy.
The research team, led
by Professor Paul Ortiz de Montellano in the US, investigated the impact of compounds related to cholesterol on the
tuberculosis - causing
bacterium Mycobacterium
tuberculosis.
TB is caused
by infection with the
bacterium M.
tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis, leprosy, and Legionnaire's disease are infections caused
by different species of
bacteria.
It is caused
by the Mycobacterium
tuberculosis bacterium, which attacks the lungs and other organs.
Tuberculosis is a disease caused
by a
bacterium that mainly affects the lungs to cause a persistent and, occasionally bloody, cough.
Tuberculosis (TB) is a curable and preventable disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and most often affects the lungs of infected
Tuberculosis (TB) is a curable and preventable disease caused
by the
bacterium Mycobacterium
tuberculosis and most often affects the lungs of infected
tuberculosis and most often affects the lungs of infected individuals.
Washington State University scientists are addressing growing global concern about the spread of antimicrobial resistance in Africa, where the World Health Organization predicts that,
by 2050, drug resistant
tuberculosis and other
bacteria could lead to the deaths of 4.15 million people each year.
The approach developed
by the MGH team starts with the engineered protein, which in this case fuses an antibody fragment targeting a protein called mesothelin — expressed on the surface of such tumors as mesothelioma, ovarian cancer and pancreatic cancer — to a protein from the
tuberculosis bacteria that stimulates the activity of dendritic and other immune cells.
But as best - selling author and television commentator Dr. Gail Saltz writes, «Seeing sex in only physical terms is an old - fashioned and ineffective approach that is based on a fundamental misunderstanding, like treating
tuberculosis with breathing exercises, which we did before we knew that
tuberculosis was caused
by a
bacterium.