Tuberculosis

Tackling tuberculosis

Posted by: Ibrahim Abubakar, Posted on: 22 January 2015 - Categories: Health Protection

Tackling Tuberculosis (TB) is one of seven key priorities for Public Health England and it’s a public health problem that we absolutely have to overcome. Our incidence of TB is four times higher than in the US and if current …

The genomics of tuberculosis

Posted by: Christine McCartney, Posted on: 16 June 2014 - Categories: Microbiology services, Protecting the country's health

Tuberculosis (TB) is a vital public health problem facing England. Rates have stabilised over the past seven years, but the incidence of TB in England remains high compared to most other Western European countries. TB is transmitted from person to …

Mistreating the treatment: the struggle against antibiotic resistance

Posted by: Paul Cosford, Posted on: 18 November 2013 - Categories: Antimicrobial resistance, Health Protection, Protecting the country's health

Antibiotics have been around for nearly 70 years. Many people still alive today may remember them first being used to treat casualties from the Second World War. Around 1944 a newspaper billboard proclaimed that ‘Penicillin cures gonorrhoea in four hours …