Early detection and treatment plans have helped limit further disease transmission in the US. However, we've seen numbers creep back up over the last few years, possibly partly due to reduced access ...
Working toward more effective tuberculosis (TB) vaccines, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed two strains of ...
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious infectious disease with considerable fatality, typically affecting the pulmonary system and, rarely, other body organs including the oral cavity.
“It’s a somber sign of what could come in any state at any point,” he said, “even in California, who generally has a very good TB control program.” Tuberculosis is a respiratory disease ...
No, you probably didn’t get tuberculosis at Sunday’s Chiefs game. A yearlong outbreak of the bacterial disease in the Kansas City metropolitan area has raised concerns about spread locally and ...
The Kansas City, Missouri, Health Department announced on Friday, Jan. 31, that the metro continues to maintain low numbers of tuberculosis cases with no signs of an active outbreak. Since 2015 ...
A case of oral tuberculosis ulcer with poor response to topically applied steroids in a patient with latent TB is presented herein.