In a significant breakthrough, the Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Bhubaneswar has developed a next-generation subunit ...
Initial blood work found hints of an infection, and the doctors initially suspected a bacterial skin infection (cellulitis) ...
Tulane University professor of medicine Zhen Huang and his team of researchers have developed a simpler way to test for ...
The number of people diagnosed with tuberculosis worldwide rose again last year, eclipsing 2023’s record total, World Health ...
Tuberculosis is one of the world's leading infectious diseases. Infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis primarily affects the lungs, but in up to 25 percent of all infected individuals ...
Scientists have created a promising new compound that could mark a major step forward in the global effort to control tuberculosis, the world's ...
ABSTRACT: The mycobacterial enzyme gyrase is the target of second-line tuberculosis (TB) drugs, fluoroquinolones. Emerging mutations in DNA gyrase subunit B including Asparagine (Asn)499Aspartic acid ...
Besides their normal role, pump overexpression confers drug resistance. Knowing the structure is a step to disabling the pumps with inhibitors BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Tuberculosis is the world’s leading ...
As of early 2025, tuberculosis cases are increasing in the U.S. This disease, often shortened to TB, causes significant lung damage and, if not treated, is almost always lethal. World TB Day on March ...
Worldwide, approximately 2 million children younger than 15 years of age are infected with multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis, with MDR tuberculosis developing in approximately ...