Fighting With Tuberculosis

Looking at the massive challenge that tuberculosis in India poses, every effort to get rid of this disease appears to be providing relief. Here, scientists of International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biology, in cooperation with All India Institute of Medical Science, have claimed on the basis of a research that they have solved the mystery of how tuberculosis (TB) bacteria flourish inside human body.

Eliminating Proteins
According to the team of scientists, for the first time in the world, they have been successful in finding those 44 proteins in human body that provide food to tuberculosis bacteria. This team says that if the production of these proteins could be stopped somehow, we could fight tuberculosis quite effectively.

Although the research has not revealed the role these 44 proteins play in the functioning of our body and what harm their absence could cause us, it would be better if these proteins don't prove to be essential for us, so that we could root out tuberculosis by eliminating these proteins.
Tuberculosis, which was once considered to be a disease under control, like small pox and plague, has once again growing fast in India in recent years.

Strain of Tuberculosis
According to the organizations TBC India and the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 300000 persons are dying of tuberculosis in India every year at an average of 1000 persons per day.

Four years ago, WHO and Center for Disease Control of the United States had issued a warning that India is far ahead in the list of countries where a new and almost incurable strain of tuberculosis is spreading. This new strain of tuberculosis has been named as 'Extreme Drug Resistant', or XDR-TB, in short.

Immunity Against Antibiotic Drugs
The most important problem in the treatment of tuberculosis is the development of immunity against antibiotic drugs. If this disease, which is proving to be a difficult challenge for medical science, can be cured with the elimination of certain proteins, it would be a matter of big relief.

We should make arrangement for complete eradication of tuberculosis from the country by taking this research forward and finding a solution to the obstacles in the way.