all Megan Murray stories http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/5297 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en Diabetes makes people more vulnerable to TB: study http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/node/20313 <!--paging_filter--> Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:56:06 -0400 404132862 20313 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu Harvard researchers receive $14 million TB study grant http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/harvard-researchers-receive-14-million-tb-study-grant <!--paging_filter--><p>Harvard researchers at <a title="" href="http://www.brighamandwomens.org/">Brigham and Women’s Hospital</a> (BWH), <a title="" href="http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/">Harvard School of Public Health</a> (HSPH), <a title="" href="http://www.hms.harvard.edu">Harvard Medical School</a> (HMS) and <a title="" href="http://www.pih.org/home.html">Partners In Health</a> (PIH) have received a grant of $14 million over five years from the <a title="" href="www.nih.gov">National Institutes of Health</a> to study multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).<p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/harvard-researchers-receive-14-million-tb-study-grant">read more</a></p> Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:48:22 -0500 404132862 20077 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu Scientists Decode Genomes of Diverse TB Isolates http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/scientists-decode-genomes-diverse-tb-isolates <!--paging_filter--><p>An international collaboration led by researchers in the US and South Africa today announced the first genome sequence of an <a title="" href="http://www.cdc.gov/tb/xdrtb/overview.htm">extensively drug resistant (XDR)</a> strain of the bacterium <a title="" href="http://www.microbiologybytes.com/video/Mtuberculosis.html"><span>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</span></a>, one linked to more than 50 deaths in a recent tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in <a title="" href="http://www.kwazulunatal.gov.za/">KwaZulu-Natal</a>, South Africa. </p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/scientists-decode-genomes-diverse-tb-isolates">read more</a></p> Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:17:18 -0500 404132862 7716 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu