On March 24, 1882, a German physician and researcher, Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (1814-1910), announced the discovery of ...

"At the time, I knew almost nothing about TB. To me, it was a disease of history — something that killed depressive ...

Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years.

Tuberculosis vaccine shows superior immune response protection in nonhuman primates when compared to existing BCG vaccine A ...

This 2006 electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which causes the disease tuberculosis. (Janice Carr/CDC ...