Dec. 3, 2024 — An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has identified several species that produce substances toxic to the bacterium that causes the human disease tuberculosis. The ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant global health challenge, being one of the leading causes of death from infectious diseases. The causative agent, ...

During the peer-review process the editor and reviewers write an eLife assessment that summarises the significance of the findings reported in the article (on a scale ranging from landmark to useful) ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death by infectious disease globally. In 2022, 7.5 million people were newly diagnosed with TB. (1) The rise of drug resistant strains of Mycobacterium ...

Branches are colored according to the M. tuberculosis complex lineage: pink for lineage 1, blue for lineage 2, purple for lineage 3, and red for lineage 4. Discrete heat maps next to the phylogeny ...

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA Department of Microbiology, UMass Chan Medical School, , USA ...

Medical surveillance is a medical check-up for a person who is newly arrived in Canada, to check that their inactive tuberculosis hasn’t progressed to active tuberculosis disease. Medical surveillance ...

In both silicosis and TB, acquired immunity plays a major role in the restriction and/or elimination of pathogenic agents. Further research is needed to determine the effects of silica in adaptive ...