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 ...

Drug-resistant tuberculosis threatens recent gains in the treatment of tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection worldwide. A widespread epidemic of extensively drug-resistant (XDR ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's biggest infectious disease killer with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) posing a particular threat to global health. A study shows that resistance to the new MDR-TB ...

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 ...

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

Interview with Dr. Michelle Macaraig on tuberculosis control and the changing epidemiology of tuberculosis in the United States. 8m 38s Download Since the introduction of chemotherapy for treating ...

LONDON (AFP) – Tens of thousands of diseased cattle slaughtered because they have bovine tuberculosis are being sold for human consumption, a report said. The Sunday Times reported that the Department ...