Tuberculosis (TB) was the leading cause of death in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. By 1900, TB — which ...

Interestingly, a strong genderbias in TB infection is reported globally each year; a 70% excess ofmale TB cases is typical. "M. tuberculosis also has aremarkable ability to persist in the human ...

Interestingly, a strong gender bias in TB infection is reported globally each year; a 70% excess of male TB cases is typical. "M. tuberculosis also has a remarkable ability to persist in the human ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of bacteria, Mycobacterium mungi, that causes tuberculosis (TB) and is transmitted through the skin and nose of banded mongoose in Northern Botswana. The ...

The potential for thousands of new deaths from TB is not worth the less than 1% in federal savings that came from cutting ...

Aug. 3, 2004 — Even brief tuberculosis exposure may cause transmission, according to the results of a study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care ...

Secretary general of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Tomsi Tohir, has emphasized the need for regional governments to take ...

Person-to-person transmission of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis, not the development of new resistance, may be the engine driving the spread of disease in South Africa, according to ...

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at Colorado State University are launching the most realistic study ever conducted into how transmission of the tuberculosis pathogen triggers infectious disease, an ...

An emerging strain of tuberculosis (TB), closely related to human TB, has been killing banded mongoose in Northern Botswana in significant numbers. This novel pathogen, Mycobacterium mungi, did ...