Rifampicin (RFP) is used for the treatment of chronic bone tuberculosis owing to its powerful and wide spectrum antibacterial activities. However, effective concentrations of RFP required to treat ...

Kansas is dealing with one of the largest outbreaks of tuberculosis recorded in a single year in the United States since the 1950s, state health officials say. The outbreak in the Kansas City area ...

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. This study was aimed at exploring pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) epidemiological characteristics and trends in China from 2016 to 2022 ...

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. Diagnosis of extrapulmonary TB (EPTB) is a major challenge. This large study found that when testing a range of ...

A new clinical decision support system, "TBorNotTB," helps streamline airborne infection isolation decisions, reducing workload while maintaining TB detection accuracy. Study: TB or not TB?

Hundreds of people in New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania are sickened with TB every year, but a recent deadly outbreak in Kansas has some worried about the disease’s spread. Tuberculosis ...

It’s January 2024. Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern part of the state, with 67 cases since 2024. So far, officials have reported 60 active ...

Kansas is experiencing its most significant tuberculosis outbreak, with 67 active and 79 latent cases reported in Wyandotte and Johnson counties. Despite the outbreak's scale, health officials ...

TB infections have been rising every year since 2020 after 30 years of decline. Now, a historic outbreak in Kansas is highlighting the disturbing trend. A colorized X-ray of a patient's chest ...

A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has caused dozens of illnesses and at least two deaths, according to the state health department. Cases related to the ...