Early diagnosis and treatment of active Tuberculosis is utmost priority, but identifying the latent TB, especially among the ...

TB killed more than 1.2 million people in 2023, likely making it once again the deadliest infection on Earth, after it was ...

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 ...

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

In a new book, author John Green writes about visiting a tuberculosis hospital in Sierra Leone, where he met a TB patient not ...

However, how Mtb manipulates host molecular switches of cell death pathways to reprogram cell death modalities and drive tuberculosis pathogenesis remains poorly understood. In a study published ...

Therapeutic vaccines made of detoxified, fragmented Mycobacterium tuberculosis cells (e.g., RUTI) delivered in liposomes were developed to reduce the period of chemotherapy. The rationale of this ...

A live-attenuated tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate in development elicits a much more balanced and effective immune response compared to the existing vaccine used across much of the world, ...

Not only does our body change with age, but so does our immune system. A recent study led by the Centre for Individualised Infection Medicine (CiiM) shows exactly how immune cells age and how ...

Peritoneal tuberculosis (TB) is a form of extrapulmonary TB that primarily affects areas such as the omentum, liver, ...