Topics in Clinical Biosecurity: Tuberculosis

Listed below are all CBN* articles on Tuberculosis published since 2005

• 01/20/2012. Totally Drug Resistant Tuberculosis: The treatment of TB is complicated by drug resistance--first single drug resistance emerged, then MDR-TB in the 1990s, followed by XDR-TB in 2001, and TDR-TB in 2007. A recent report detailing 4 cases of TDR-TB in India is the third report since 2007. 
• 03/03/2011. Social Network Analysis and Whole Genome Sequencing Aid in TB Outbreak Investigation: Researchers from British Columbia have just published results of a TB outbreak investigation in which the combined use of whole-genome sequencing and social-network analysis produced results not likely to have been achieved through traditional methods. 
• Learning from the XDR-TB Experience: Policy Priorities Going Forward. June 7, 2007. 
• The Potential Disaster of Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis. November 10, 2006. 
• Outbreak of Highly Lethal, Extensive Drug Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa. September 6, 2006. 

                  
*Formerly The Clinicians' Biosecurity Network Report; title changed in July 2011