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...Tuberculosis is up 35% since 1985 among kids under 15. The Centers for Disease Control says this is fallout from the recent TB increase among adults, who are now infecting their children...
USING CURRENT TECHNIQUES, DOCTORS MUST WAIT up to 18 weeks for laboratory . results to identify which drugs effectively treat strains of tuberculosis. Now scientists have come up with an ingenious assay that promises to cut that time in half -- literally by shedding a new light on TB. Their bright new idea comes from the same gene that makes fireflies glow...
...report to Science, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine say they insert the gene, which directs production of a light- emitting enzyme called luciferase, into tissue samples taken from TB patients. Within two hours, the cultures are aglow. Various drugs are then introduced. If the particular strain of TB is susceptible, the light dims and goes out. If the TB is resistant, the culture keeps shining...
...months to two years needed to achieve a cure, city health officials announced they will soon begin to confine the most recalcitrant patients in hospitals and long-term facilities. Detainees will have legal protections and be released when they finish therapy. Boston and Denver have adopted similar TB quarantines...
...recommended list is more extensive screening for TB infection among high-risk groups, including children, hospital patients and the homeless. Because people with weakened immune systems are particularly vulnerable to TB, the doctors also advise that anyone who lives in close + contact with a TB patient should also be screened for AIDS-spawning HIV. For those tubercular patients who refuse treatment, thereby needlessly endangering their fellow citizens, the health experts recommend mandatory quarantine as a last resort...