In 2023, after a brief hiatus, tuberculosis regained from COVID its status as the world’s deadliest infectious disease—a ...

The battery-powered device is the first to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis in saliva in addition to blood and sputum.

Bacterial cells must swiftly modulate the expression ... complex factors governing the transcriptional response in ...

tuberculosis cells. In separate tests on saliva from ... the particles to produce reactive oxygen species that inactivated Mycobacterium marinum, a bacterium that causes TB-like illness in fish.

tuberculosis cells. In separate tests on saliva from ... the particles to produce reactive oxygen species that inactivated Mycobacterium marinum, a bacterium that causes TB-like illness in fish.

"At the time, I knew almost nothing about TB. To me, it was a disease of history — something that killed depressive 19th-century poets, not present-tense humans." ...

The current tuberculosis (TB) vaccine Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette ... and will potentially cover a combination of different T-cell populations, but such vaccines must be not only more ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis within Kansas City in the United States has been ongoing since Jan. 2024 and has highlighted new ...

Once in the lungs, the bacteria infect immune cells and spread to the lymph ... is the most reliable way to confirm the presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Other tests, like a polymerase ...

Mycobacterium abscessus is a fast-growing ... The microbe is closely related to the one that causes tuberculosis and is naturally resistant to many antibiotics. Infections often require a year ...

World TB Day on March 24 raises awareness about the disease and commemorates Robert Koch’s discovery of the source bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. More than a century later, scientists continue ...