One of the boys with cavitary tuberculosis sang in the school choir with 21 other boys, 20 of whom were initially tuberculin negative. Of these 20, ...

Despite the immune evasion/modulation response strategies that M. tuberculosis can induce, the initial response to infection is virtually always a strong inflammatory response. This is because the ...

“If someone comes in and they’re coughing up blood like they got a cavitary lesion, that’s when you’re going to think TB,” he said. “A lot of times, it doesn’t present like that.

“If someone comes in and they’re coughing up blood like they got a cavitary lesion, that’s when you’re going to think TB,” he said. “A lot of times, it doesn’t present like that.

What is TB? Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is a bacterial infection that primarily affects a person's lungs. Its symptoms vary widely depending on how the slow-growing mycobacterium that causes ...