(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at Colorado State University are launching the most realistic study ever conducted into how transmission of the tuberculosis pathogen triggers infectious disease, an ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, affecting millions annually despite being preventable and curable. Understanding how TB spreads is crucial for both ...

Fingerprints were available for 200 case-PSC pairs, of whom 51 had identical strains and 8 more had similar strains that were likely to be attributable to transmission between the 2 persons ( Table 1) ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Controlling the spread of tuberculosis in geographic areas with high tuberculosis rates could greatly reduce ...

Aug. 3, 2004 — Even brief tuberculosis exposure may cause transmission, according to the results of a study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care ...

The number of human tuberculosis (TB) cases that are due to transmission from animals, as opposed to human-to-human transmission, may be much higher than previously estimated, according to an ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of bacteria, Mycobacterium mungi, that causes tuberculosis (TB) and is transmitted through the skin and nose of banded mongoose in Northern Botswana. The ...

A tuberculosis outbreak in Edmonton’s inner-city has prompted a renewed look at how the airborne disease spreads and how it ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the second most common cause of death worldwide by an infectious pathogen (after Covid-19), but many aspects of its long history with humans remain controversial. Researchers ...

Tuberculosis has been a scourge upon humanity throughout history. In killing more than a million each year worldwide, it remains the leading cause of death from a single infectious pathogen. While ...

Tuberculosis lives and thrives in the lungs. When the bacteria that cause the disease are coughed into the air, they are thrust into a comparatively hostile environment, with drastic changes to their ...

The finding upends conventional wisdom regarding coughing, long thought to be the main route of transmission. By Apoorva Mandavilli Upending centuries of medical dogma, a team of South African ...