Less than half of the children aged 0-14 who have TB are diagnosed – so they never even start treatment.
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The overcrowded conditions of prisons make them a high-risk environment for the spread of infectious diseases such as TB.
In high-income countries people at high risk of TB disease undergo screening programmes even when they have no symptoms.
Until vaccines that are capable of protecting all populations against TB are developed, treatment is the best option to preventing infection.
In Manitoba, Canada, researchers have used health databases to better understand how people with tuberculosis interact with the health-care system.
Scientists have struggled to diagnose TB in people with compromised immune systems because of the low levels of the bacteria in their body.
Scientists have found proteins in the body that promote lung inflammation which helps the bacteria that causes TB to spread throughout the lung.
South African scientists have found a way to single out the problematic parts of the bacteria causing TB that results in drug resistance.
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Faculty Member, Africa Health Research Institute; Associate professor, UCL
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Head of the Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Community Health Sciences & Senior Research Scientist with Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba
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Associate Professor, SARChI Research Chair in Mycobactomics, Stellenbosch University
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Postdoctoral research fellow in the MRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Stellenbosch University
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Professor, University of the Western Cape
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Lecturer in Mathematics, University of the Western Cape
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Socio-behavioural Scientist and Senior Researcher, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University
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Lead Senior Scientist, Aurum Institute