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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.

the research team led by Oona Lee of the University of Birmingham in the U.K. took samples of bone from the two skeletons and analyzed them for the presence of M. tuberculosis DNA. Both were positive.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlike the flu or COVID-19, tuberculosis has a long lead time. The bacteria that causes the disease can live in the human respiratory tract for many years, or even decades, before becoming active ...