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

In Germany, it is often overlooked that diseases once thought to be defeated, like tuberculosis, still exist and that the ...

A vaccine protects more than 100 million infants each year from severe tuberculosis (TB), including the fatal brain swelling ...

A recent phase 2b clinical trial in South Africa found that Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) revaccination did not prevent ...

TB infection is different from active TB disease; and a flare up could happen within weeks of acquiring the infection or maybe years ...

A new study by University of Bath scientists has highlighted two new potential families of drug molecules that could open the door to new treatments for tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis (TB) belongs to infectious diseases leading to the high mortality and morbidity worldwide. Since long-term ...

FEBRUARY 17, 2020 — As many as 10 million cases of tuberculosis resulting in 1.5 million deaths were estimated worldwide in 2018 by the World Health Organization. While the disease is treatable, a ...

‌Skeletal tuberculosis is also caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Unlike pulmonary tuberculosis, studies have shown that bone or spinal tuberculosis may not spread through the air.

Pore-forming Esx proteins mediate toxin secretion by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nature Communications , 2021; 12 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20533-1 Cite This Page : ...