Directly observed therapy — where a health professional watches someone take a medication — has been the standard of care for tuberculosis treatment in the United States since 2016. Now DOT, as it’s ...

Produced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), this digitally colorized scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image, depicts a grouping of red-colored, rod shaped, ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Tuberculosis cases in the United States rose by 5% in 2022, elevating to the highest level since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic after decades of gradual decreases, the ...

Tuberculosis cases have increased for the second year in a row, according to a March 2023 report from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While incidence of tuberculosis ...

Tuberculosis cases reported in the United States appear to be returning to levels seen before the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

An outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) developed in Kansas in November 2021, and included multiple children who were born in the U.S. and became infected in the state, CDC researchers ...

Yolo County officials traced contacts after a TB case surfaced at Cache Creek Casino. California saw 2,100 TB cases in 2024, with a rising mortality rate of 14%. Health agencies stress screening and ...