The smartphone-sized, battery-powered test is a cost-effective tool that can improve TB diagnoses, particularly in rural areas where facilities and equipment are less accessible. Dr. Tony Hu, a Tulane ...

Researchers at the Ragon Institute have made a significant discovery about how antibodies can directly enhance the body's ...

The Philippine College of Physicians (PCP) on Friday reminded the public that tuberculosis (TB) is a serious bacterial ...

Tuberculosis is a common infectious disease in the lungs, but tuberculosis bacteria can cause infection in almost all parts ...

Chemists found a way to identify a complex sugar molecule in the cell walls of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ... either in culture or in a urine sample, which could offer a cheaper and faster ...

Your doctor may use an acid-fast bacteria (AFB) stain test to see if you have a lung disease like tuberculosis (TB ... can affect people with HIV/AIDS. Mycobacteria are a kind of bacteria ...

Tuberculosis is one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases. One of the major challenges in combating it is the unique cell envelope of mycobacteria. The outer layer of this cell envelope ...

In the lab, the researchers grew Mycobacterium tuberculosis alongside each of ... those that competed directly with mycobacteria by co-culture and discovered that these fungi all target the ...

and immunologic characteristics with Mycobacterium tuberculosis aerosolization and transmission in 129 household members. Contacts of the forty-three aerosol culture-positive participants (30%) are ...

TB is a highly infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis ... they'll consider doing a sputum culture test. It's been a month since I started taking the antibiotics ...

Sputum culture involves inoculating sputum samples onto culture media to allow the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. Culture is the gold standard for TB diagnosis, offering high ...

Bacterial culture. If you have bone tuberculosis, you probably have an underlying lung infection. Your doctor may take a blood or sputum sample and test it for Mycobacterium tuberculosis.