A new study in Calgary hospitals highlights the need to optimise latent tuberculosis testing prior to patient hospitalisation ...

A novel, portable assay can deliver TB diagnoses in under an hour at low cost using samples of blood, saliva, or sputum, ...

The COVID-19 Nimbus variant is on the rise in the U.S. as many report a painful symptom known as "razor blade throat." If you ...

Dr. Selman A. Waksman, 60, discoverer of streptomycin and neomycin (TIME, April 4), has dreamed for years of better facilities for hunting new antibiotics and for teaching others to join in the ...

The treatment landscape for tuberculosis has evolved significantly since the discovery of streptomycin in 1943, the first antibiotic effective against TB. Today’s treatment approaches balance ...

Most of the clinical experience with the streptomycin treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis has indicated that this antibiotic is effective against the acute exudative lesions and that little or no ...

There is no evidence to support these beliefs. Streptomycin was the first antibiotic treatment to become available for TB, in the 1940s. However, the microorganism quickly became drug resistant.

His efforts to understand and cure tuberculosis coincided with the discovery of streptomycin in 1944. Streptomycin temporarily suppressed tuberculosis but was not a cure for the disease.

There is no evidence to support these beliefs. Streptomycin was the first antibiotic treatment to become available for TB, in the 1940s. However, the microorganism quickly became drug resistant. A ...

There is no evidence to support these beliefs. Streptomycin was the first antibiotic treatment to become available for TB, in the 1940s. However, the microorganism quickly became drug resistant.

But nothing did more to diminish the threat of TB than antibiotics. Penicillin was discovered in 1928 and refined and mass-produced over the next decades. In 1945, the drug streptomycin was first ...