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

The WHO’s 2025 policy brief highlights how tuberculosis disproportionately affects marginalized and high-risk populations due ...

Some patients with highly drug-resistant tuberculosis could benefit from a shorter treatment with fewer drugs, while others ...

Tuberculosis (TB) was the leading cause of death in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. By 1900, TB — which ...

DeKalb County has the highest rate of tuberculosis cases in Georgia. Next week, it’s opening a new clinic to help test for the disease and treat it.

Tuberculosis Outbreak in Long Beach, Calif., Has Left 1 Dead, 9 Hospitalized and 170 People Exposed. An outbreak of the lung disease, which has been traced to an unnamed hotel, has left 1 dead and ...

Young people are at risk of falling seriously unwell with tuberculosis and spreading the disease. Therefore, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, among others, have mapped key factors ...

Tuberculosis preventive therapy (i.e., treatment for asymptomatic latent tuberculosis infection) is highly effective, especially in people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, in ...

LONDON – More than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, the highest number recorded since the U.N. health agency began keeping ...

In a move welcomed by advocates, a treatment for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis could soon become more accessible for millions of people worldwide. Although tuberculosis is uncommon in the U.S ...

The relative risk of tuberculosis among people with HIV infection increases exponentially as CD4+ T-lymphocyte counts decline. The risk is increased by a factor of more than 25 when the CD4+ T ...

Tuberculosis is primarily transmitted through the air when people with active pulmonary or laryngeal TB cough, speak, sing, sneeze, or otherwise expel tiny droplets containing Mycobacterium ...