A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...

In reality, tuberculosis is carried in droplets that fly through the air, evaporating as they go. In order to carry out their genetic analyses, the team had to work with droplets sitting on a plate.

A couple of decades before that, Dr. Carl Flügge, a microbiologist, epidemiologist and hygienist, discovered that tuberculosis bacteria were spread in droplets freshly coughed into the air by TB ...

The droplets can be inhaled by nearby individuals. Most previous experimental work on the tuberculosis has been based on bacteria grown in a laboratory solution. But the team found that this fluid ...

Tuberculosis bacteria rely on a family of genes that help them survive the challenging journey from one person's lungs to another person's during coughing, sneezing or talking, according to ...

Tuberculosis is spread by small infectious droplets in the air. A TB patient may emit these droplets by coughing, singing and potentially from regular breathing that occurs during sleep or resting.

anthracis as an aerosol disseminated bioweapon ... And while most of the droplets in the spray are large, in the range of 100 to 150 microns, a significant amount of small droplet aerosolization ...

In reality, tuberculosis is carried in droplets that fly through the air, evaporating as they go. In order to carry out their genetic analyses, the team had to work with droplets sitting on a plate.