Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates underwent insertion ... versus those that were due to transmission (i.e., transmitted resistance). We used social-network analysis to identify community and ...

This method of strain typing provides stable restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns that are useful in epidemiologic investigations to determine transmission between persons.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis ... about 13 percent of TB cases in the United States are due to a recent transmission. If you have symptoms of TB or you have risk factors, your ...

Of 546 available isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ... with reactivation disease rather than with tuberculosis due to recent transmission. Homelessness was associated with clustering ...

This article examines the transmission mechanisms of tuberculosis ... or otherwise expel tiny droplets containing Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. These microscopic droplet nuclei can remain ...

Tuberculosis is a respiratory disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis ... For their new study, Nathan and Bourouiba focused on transmission of tuberculosis, from the perspective of the bacterium ...

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 ...

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. The most common way to ...

The findings provide new targets for tuberculosis therapies that could simultaneously treat infection and prevent the spread of bacteria. Until now, very little was known about this transmission ...

Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis ... and domestic Tuberculosis transmission remains relatively rare.