Despite longstanding reliance on sputum smear microscopy, culture methods, and chest X-rays, conventional TB diagnostics ...

Tuberculosis is the world's leading infectious cause of death, killing more than one million people each year. When the antibiotic bedaquiline was introduced in 2012, it was the first new tuberculosis ...

At its core, tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a rod-shaped bacterium with a unique waxy cell wall that contributes to its resilience and pathogenicity.

The romantic disease. Monday, March 24th, was World Tuberculosis Day, which celebrates the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes tuberculosis, by Robert Koch in 1882.At the ...

A study published Feb. 6 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes the novel use of artificial intelligence to screen for antimicrobial compound candidates that could be ...

A skin disease caused by a bacteria called Mycobacterium ulcerans, known as Buruli ulcer, can start as a small bump and then start damaging your skin quickly if left untreated. The toxin from the ...

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 ...

This article presents an automatic identification method of mycobacterium tuberculosis with conventional microscopy images based on Red and Green color channels using global adaptive threshold ...