Initial blood work found hints of an infection, and the doctors initially suspected a bacterial skin infection (cellulitis) ...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) may be on the cusp of making a new vaccine to combat a rise in the world's deadliest disease, which takes 1million lives worldwide.

This is a column about tuberculosis (TB), the world's single, most deadly-yet-curable infection that killed one in seven Americans as recently as the 1880s. That said, it was not until 8 decades later ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), with approximately 10 million new cases reported worldwide annually. Patients with immunocompromised states or ...

Scientists have developed a new compound that could offer a breakthrough in the global fight against tuberculosis, history’s deadliest infectious disease. A study recently published in Nature ...

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Your lab has developed various genetic methods to turn Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) genes on and off. How are these tools refining our understanding of tuberculosis (TB) pathogenesis? The areas ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) and human TB by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). The difference in lung ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) and human TB by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). The difference in lung ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that kills more than a million people worldwide every year. The pathogen that causes the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is deadly in part because of ...