The Xpert MTB/Ultra molecular diagnostic test for stool samples, until now recommended only for children, could be ...

In a lab in the heart of Boston, professor Bree Aldridge leads a team of researchers trying to understand a threat that is ...

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 ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that kills more than a million people worldwide every year. The pathogen that ...

Having read John Green's latest book, Everything is Tuberculosis, twice, I have no choice but to say, "Yeah, everything is ...

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has presented three scientific research projects contributing to the fight against tuberculosis, the leading cause of death from infectious disease in the world ...

An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) treatments by helping infected cells die a gentler death, Johns Hopkins ...

The patient's inguinal lymph nodes were not palpable. There was no past or family history of tuberculosis. Systemic examination was unremarkable. Results of blood analyses on presentation are ...

which are coated with membranes of preactivated macrophages to target granulomas in Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected mice and eradicate the infection through irradiation with a 1,064 nm laser.

It has been shown in phase 2 trials to achieve eradication of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis organism in patients with drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis, with no serious adverse effects ...