Leading UCSF physician-scientists are developing targeted treatments, earlier diagnostics, and helping to solve tuberculosis’ ...

Tuberculosis lives and thrives in the lungs. When the bacteria that cause the disease are coughed into the air, they are ...

Tuberculosis bacteria rely on a family of genes that help them survive the challenging journey from one person's lungs to another person's during coughing, sneezing or talking, according to ...

The study emphasizes the limitations of the century-old Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, which fails to prevent adult pulmonary TB or latent ... and viral vector-based MVATG18598 show ...

A characteristic feature of tuberculosis (tubercle = nodular swelling) is the formation of granulomas. These nodular tissue changes are formed by the body in the lungs to wall off and contain Mtb ...

Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs and can be spread through the air. Individuals can have latent tuberculosis, which is not contagious but still requires ...

explains UCSF Center for TB’s Adithya Cattamanchi, MD. Cattamanchi is also UC Irvine’s division chief of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine. TB can be a debilitating illness: The longer it ...