Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

Current methods for tracking pulmonary TB, the most common form of the disease, rely on sputum smear microscopy, DNA ...

In low and middle-income countries with the most cases of TB, the primary means of detecting TB is by examining sputum with a microscope. Microscopy can be effective in detecting highly infectious ...

Infectious disease specialists note next-generation sequencing as game changer in TB detection: Nandita Vijayasimha, Bengaluru Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 08:00 Hrs [IST] Infectious d ...

SCTIMST researchers develop cost-effective, real-time LAMP assay for early TB diagnosis with high sensitivity and specificity.

Underlining the need for early detection, the minister said in Punjab, the 2020-21 survey revealed a prevalence-notification ...

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 ...

Conventional testing with smear microscopy has poor sensitivity, missing over 40% of those with the disease. Despite this, the India TB report 2024 says, less than a quarter of testing done among ...

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 via AP ...