Tuberculosis (TB) remains a formidable health challenge, claiming over a million lives annually despite advancements in ...

Three patients at Narva Hospital may have been exposed to tuberculosis (TB) through contaminated medical equipment, prompting ...

Tuberculosis lives and thrives in the lungs. When the bacteria that cause the disease are coughed into the air, they are ...

Study by MIT and others identifies genes essential for tuberculosis bacterium’s survival during airborne transmission.

Tuberculosis bacteria rely on a family of genes that help them survive the challenging journey from one person's lungs to another person's during coughing, sneezing or talking, according to ...

Tuberculosis remains one of the most lethal infectious diseases caused by a single pathogen. According to the latest global ...

pathogen-specific immune responses that target TB, a disease that has long evaded effective vaccine development. This represents a major advance in TB vaccine research and provides a strong ...

The World Health Organization warned last week that the sweeping funding cuts could endanger millions of lives, since many countries depend on foreign aid for TB prevention, testing and treatment.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) manipulates host cell death pathways to facilitate infection by promoting necroptosis and inhibiting apoptosis. The Mtb effector ...

Join Professor Lindsay Eltis for a free lecture on how pathogens use traits from environmental bacteria to survive in human hosts.

U.S.A.I.D. Global Health The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.