Early diagnosis and treatment of active Tuberculosis is utmost priority, but identifying the latent TB, especially among the ...

As of early 2025, tuberculosis cases are increasing in the U.S. This disease, often shortened to TB, causes significant lung damage and, if not treated, is almost always lethal. World TB Day on March ...

TB killed more than 1.2 million people in 2023, likely making it once again the deadliest infection on Earth, after it was ...

In a new book, author John Green writes about visiting a tuberculosis hospital in Sierra Leone, where he met a TB patient not ...

In 2023, after a brief hiatus, tuberculosis regained from COVID its status as the world’s deadliest infectious disease—a ...

Therapeutic vaccines made of detoxified, fragmented Mycobacterium tuberculosis cells (e.g., RUTI) delivered in liposomes were developed to reduce the period of chemotherapy. The rationale of this ...

A live-attenuated tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate in development elicits a much more balanced and effective immune response compared to the existing vaccine used across much of the world, ...

Engineered Mycobacterium tuberculosis triple-kill-switch strain provides controlled tuberculosis infection in animal models. Nature Microbiology , 2025; 10 (2): 482 DOI: 10.1038/s41564-024-01913-5 ...

Peritoneal tuberculosis (TB) is a form of extrapulmonary TB that primarily affects areas such as the omentum, liver, ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Public Health Image Library, NIAID, Image ID: 18139) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Public Health Image Library, NIAID, Image ID: 18139) Tuberculosis (TB) is the number ...