Tuberculosis is a "near-perfect predator," John Green said in his book "Everything is Tuberculosis." The bacterial infection, caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, mostly affects the ...

Under these constraints, they mimicked the droplet transmission as best they ... to confirm whether the genes do indeed shield Mycobacterium tuberculosis as it is transmitted through the air ...

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Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, was responsible for 1.25 million deaths in 2023, 13% of which were among people living with HIV. Currently, the main ...

TB is a bacterial infection that happens due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis ... as it enables immediate treatment and prevents further transmission. Advanced molecular diagnostics, such as PCR ...

We have some ideas now." More information: Saurabh Mishra et al, Candidate transmission survival genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025).