Your healthcare provider may also recommend a TB test — either a blood test or a skin test. For the skin test, you will need ...

Some patients at KwaZulu-Natal hospitals are donating lung tissue for use in TB research. Spotlight tracks what happens to these tissue samples and explores why they are so important to unlocking ...

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study leverages decades of cancer research to study tuberculosis-affected lung tissue and improve treatment.

Lung scarring, or pulmonary fibrosis, occurs when lung tissue becomes damaged and scarred, impairing lung function. This scarring can result from various conditions, including chronic inflammation, ...

A paucity of human lung tissue for study has left a fundamental gap in understanding how the bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, or Mtb, causes disease in people, says Steyn, a ...

A $5.8 million grant led by the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, South Africa, will provide user-requested infected human lung tissue ...

Post-COVID pulmonary fibrosis, which involves scarring of the lungs that can worsen over time and may require a lung transplant, affects some patients after infection, according to pulmonologists.

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a bacterial infection that causes 1.3 million deaths and 10.6 million new active cases each year, yet experimental animal models of TB do not reproduce the full spectrum of ...

Trinity researchers find ‘natural killer’ cells that live in the lung are ready for a sugar rush Findings provide a foundation for further exploration of natural killer cells for the ...

A Calhoun woman contracted tuberculosis after contaminated human tissue was implanted in her spine during surgery, according to a lawsuit she and her husband have filed.

New research being presented at this year's ESCMID Global Congress (formerly ECCMID) in Barcelona, Spain (27-30 April) has found compelling evidence that tuberculosis (TB) can have a lasting ...

A tuberculosis outbreak that spanned seven states in 2023 has been tied to bone graft products from an infected donor — again. Two spinal surgery patients died from a tuberculosis infection, or ...