Editor’s note: This article is part of a collection of expert commentaries. You can read the rest of the series here. It is true that the next pandemic is a matter of “when,” not “if.” The statistical ...

Tuberculosis is both curable and preventable, yet each year, it still kills more people than any other infectious disease.

Six years ago, Michael Niederweis, Ph.D., described the first toxin ever found for the deadly pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This toxin, tuberculosis necrotizing toxin, or TNT, became the ...

Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have developed a promising new substance for targeting ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the pathogen that causes tuberculosis (TB), the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Mtb is so successful and harmful because it can adapt to different conditions ...

A disease that has stalked humanity for millennia may have finally met its match. Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen behind the world’s deadliest infectious disease, has been found to depend on ...

Scientists discovered genes in the tuberculosis bacterium that becomes essential for the pathogen's survival when it's exposed to air through coughing. These genes could be targets for new therapies ...

Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have developed a promising new substance for targeting bacteria that cause tuberculosis. The team have produced a compound that inhibits ...

Recent research suggests that the emergence of tuberculosis infection in human populations dates back tens of thousands of years earlier than previously known cases in the Middle East. In ...

Almost forgotten today, tuberculosis (TB) is still one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world. In an interview with Coliquio, Ronald D. Gerste, MD, PhD, an ophthalmologist and historian, ...

A DNA project conducted last fall found a number of potential human pathogens in Charleston's waterways, with some of the top being tuberculosis, staph, cholera and E. coli. When bacteria levels are ...