Background: Young children exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis have a high risk of disease progression following infection. This study aimed to determine risk factors for M. tuberculosis infection ...

Multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis is defined as disease caused by strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that are at least resistant to treatment with isoniazid and rifampicin; extensively ...

Multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis is a treatable, airborne infectious disease that killed an estimated 1.5 million people between 2000 and 2009 — an annual rate 10 times that of the H1N1 ...

CDC scientists tracing ordinary tuberculosis cases use genetic analysis to hunt for a chain of transmission that they might not catch through traditional shoe-leather epidemiology. The method has real ...

What is multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and when did it first arise? MDR-TB is tuberculosis, a mycobacterial infection, that has developed resistance to two important and powerful first-line ...

Understanding how seasonality shapes the dynamics of tuberculosis (TB) is essential in determining risks of transmission and drug resistance in (sub)tropical regions. We developed a relative ...

There were an estimated 490,000 new cases of drug-resistant TB in 2016. Tuberculosis, a lung disease most often transmitted by breathing infected particles in the air, is the ninth leading cause of ...

Experts warn that extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis is emerging as a ‘quietly growing monster’ that could undermine ...