Your healthcare provider may also recommend a TB test — either a blood test or a skin test. For the skin test, you will need ...

In Germany, it is often overlooked that diseases once thought to be defeated, like tuberculosis, still exist and that the ...

A vaccine protects more than 100 million infants each year from severe tuberculosis (TB), including the fatal brain swelling ...

Tuberculosis (TB) belongs to infectious diseases leading to the high mortality and morbidity worldwide. Since long-term ...

A recent phase 2b clinical trial in South Africa found that Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) revaccination did not prevent ...

TB infection is different from active TB disease; and a flare up could happen within weeks of acquiring the infection or maybe years ...

FEBRUARY 17, 2020 — As many as 10 million cases of tuberculosis resulting in 1.5 million deaths were estimated worldwide in 2018 by the World Health Organization. While the disease is treatable, a ...

‌Skeletal tuberculosis is also caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Unlike pulmonary tuberculosis, studies have shown that bone or spinal tuberculosis may not spread through the air.

Pore-forming Esx proteins mediate toxin secretion by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nature Communications , 2021; 12 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20533-1 Cite This Page : ...

Chemists found a way to identify a complex sugar molecule in the cell walls of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the world's deadliest pathogen. This labeling could lead to simpler, faster TB tests.