India: A recent study conducted in a high-endemic region highlights the role of chest X-rays (CXR) in identifying ...

U.S.A.I.D. Global Health The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.

Candidate transmission survival genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2025; 122 (10) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2425981122 Cite This Page : ...

The World Health Organization warned last week that the sweeping funding cuts could endanger millions of lives, since many countries depend on foreign aid for TB prevention, testing and treatment.

This large case series illustrates several features of adolescent TB. First, most patients were identified after presenting with symptoms. Second, the rates of extrathoracic TB were high ...

The most common sites of extrathoracic TB were peripheral lymphadenopathy ... were infiltrates (34%), lymphadenopathy (27%), cavitary lesions (26%), pleural effusions (19%) and miliary disease ...

Xin Wang et al, Engineered Mycobacterium tuberculosis triple-kill-switch strain provides controlled tuberculosis infection in animal models, Nature Microbiology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41564-024-01913-5 ...