Untreated tuberculosis may result in several long-term complications ... For example, the bacteria can spread to the bones, causing bone pain. Without treatment, active TB can be fatal.

Contaminated bone allograft material ... false-negative results and can take as long as 2 months. In this instance, liquid cultures did not grow M. tuberculosis until 40 days after inoculation ...

Both patients had been exposed to the bone-repair product, and both subsequently died of tuberculosis. (Tuberculosis is curable with a months-long course of antibiotics; the MMWR didn't note when ...

A decades-old TB vaccine turned cancer therapy may unlock new immunotherapies by reprogramming immune cell development in the ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease ... While rare, there have been reports of TB transmission through bone grafts, in which healthy, donated bone material is used to replace ...

such as a lymph node or bone. Most often, TB spreads through the air when an individual with TB speaks or coughs. M. tuberculosis can stay airborne for several hours and spreads more readily in ...

Kansas is facing one of the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history ... MORE: What to know about TB after outbreak in Long Beach sickens 14 Cases linked to the outbreak were ...

who consulted on her case as program physician for the Washtenaw County Tuberculosis Clinic. The contaminated bone tissue product from the same deceased donor was used in 36 patients who ...

It's unclear if the patient is a student, faculty member or staff member. A case of active tuberculosis has been confirmed at a Florida high school, according to state health officials.