San Diego County's Tuberculosis Control Program on Thursday is tracking three unrelated cases of tuberculosis at UC San Diego, the Sweetwater Union High School District and the San Diego County ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) are two distinct types of bacteria that can cause infections in the lungs and other parts of the body. Belonging to the same ...

There were an estimated 490,000 new cases of drug-resistant TB in 2016. Tuberculosis, a lung disease most often transmitted by breathing infected particles in the air, is the ninth leading cause of ...

A vaccine protects more than 100 million infants each year from severe tuberculosis (TB), including the fatal brain swelling it can cause in babies and toddlers. But the vaccine doesn't prevent adults ...

California is facing a steep rise in tuberculosis cases. In 2023, the number of tuberculosis cases increased by 271, or 15%, from 2022, according to California Department of Public Health data ...

Approximately 170 people have been exposed, city officials say. The City Council in Long Beach, California, voted Tuesday to ratify a local public health emergency order after an outbreak of ...

A highly contagious and potentially deadly disease is seeing sharp upticks—and that's in addition to the measles outbreak we're dealing with already. Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's deadliest infectious disease—and one of the hardest to cure. Standard treatment requires a cocktail of multiple drugs over at least six months, and one in five ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern ...

J Midwifery Womens Health. 2007;52(4):415-416. Tuberculosis (TB) is an infection caused by bacteria. It usually affects the lungs, but it can also cause problems in other parts of the body. TB is most ...

Initial blood work found hints of an infection, and the doctors initially suspected a bacterial skin infection (cellulitis) ...