Two strains of the bacterium causing tuberculosis have only minor genetic differences but attack the lungs in completely different fashion, according to researchers. Two strains of the bacterium ...

Person-to-person transmission of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis, not the development of new resistance, may be the engine driving the spread of disease in South Africa, according to the ...

Dr. Igor Mokrousov from St. Petersburg's Pasteur Institute and his colleagues have demonstrated that the evolutionary history of the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB) has been shaped by human ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers retrospectively collected data from four Public Health Services in the Tuscany region between ...

There’s more bad news on the antibiotic resistance front. A new study reveals that strains of tuberculosis that evade most of the drugs typically used to treat the bacterial infection have been ...

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 ...

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

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