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 ...

TB is a bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It primarily affects the lungs and remains one of the world ...

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

Gemina Laboratories Ltd. (CSE:GLAB)(FRA:8I7), a specialist in fast, affordable, and accurate diagnostic tests, is delighted to announce significant technical results from its collaboration with ...

What is TB? Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is a bacterial infection that primarily affects a person's lungs. Its symptoms vary widely depending on how the slow-growing mycobacterium that causes ...

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

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.

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 ...

Mycobacterium bovis leads to tuberculosis. Learn about this condition's causes, symptoms, and treatment options today.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a near-perfect predator. In 1882, Robert Koch, the physician who discovered the microbe, told a room full of scientists that it caused one in seven of all deaths. In ...