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 ...

For those living in affluent countries, it’s easy to forget about tuberculosis, which seems like a disease of the Victorian era. In the U.S., thanks to investments in public health and TB surveillance ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana hospital where an employee recently tested positive for tuberculosis has notified hundreds of patients that they may have been exposed to the bacteria ...

The test can be administered on a mouth swab instead of sputum and doesn’t require lab facilities ...

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 ...

To reflect this reality, the Gladstone Institute of Virology has taken on a new name: the Gladstone Infectious Disease ...

Ocular TB is a rare eye disease due to infection from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the same bacterium that causes tuberculosis, commonly known as TB. TB symptoms usually start in the lungs, but they ...

Tulane University researchers have developed an enhanced CRISPR-based tuberculosis test that works with a simple tongue swab, ...

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