In 2023, after a brief hiatus, tuberculosis regained from COVID its status as the world’s deadliest infectious disease—a ...

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 ...

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 ...

IAVI and Biofabri are collaborating on the trial, which will recruit around 4,300 patients with latent TB infections across four countries.

The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests ...

Tuberculosis may seem like a disease of the past—more associated with Victorian waifs and overcrowded tenements than medicine in the 21st century—but it’s definitely still with us. Here’s ...

The result was a robust immune response that protected the monkeys from subsequent lung infections with M. tuberculosis. "Despite the promising preclinical results, evaluating if the vaccination ...

With his new book 'Everything Is Tuberculosis,' celebrity author John Green is breathing new life into tuberculosis advocacy ...