A portable device to detect tuberculosis with the help of a smartphone has been developed by a team of researchers at Tezpur ...

In this issue of BioTechniques, we present a method for Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection using a colorimetric single-tube nested PCR assay, a strand displacement amplification method for ...

TB developing from mycobacterium bovis transmission to humans has become quite rare, though. Today, less than 2% of reported human tuberculosis cases come from M. bovis.

Since our discovery of the tuberculosis necrotizing toxin, we suspected that its secretion mechanism might be novel since the toxin lacked classical signal peptides, which target proteins for export ...

New England Journal of Medicine Source Reference: Schmidt AC, et al "BCG revaccination for the prevention of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection" N Engl J Med 2025; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2412381.

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. Learn more here.