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

A paucity of human lung tissue for study has left a fundamental gap in understanding how the bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, or Mtb, causes disease in people, says Steyn ...

Tuberculosis is a chronic disease that has been around for centuries, yet why they persist in the human body is not fully understood. Some patients now are donating lung tissue for use in TB research.

A paucity of human lung tissue for study has left a fundamental gap in understanding how the bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, or Mtb, causes disease in people, says Steyn ...

Around 20% of cases of tuberculosis affect organs other than the lungs, and some can cause warty ... resistant disease The doctors then took a tissue sample and analyzed it under the microscope ...

Detecting TB early goes a long way toward avoiding some of the disease's worst outcomes and preventing its spread to others.

TB is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a type of bacterial species. In early stages, infected lung cells limit spread ... and damage to surrounding tissue. While apoptosis could be compared ...

COPD is the result of damaged lung tissue, which leads to inflammation ... to respiratory infections such as pneumonia, COVID-19 and tuberculosis. Related complications are why "COPD is a leading ...

A paucity of human lung tissue for study has left a fundamental gap in understanding how the bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, or Mtb, causes disease in people, says Steyn, a professor in ...