BALTIMORE — Tuberculosis infected more than 8 million people in 2024—surpassing COVID-19 and marking a record high since 1995 ...

A new national cohort study provides important insights into the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The ...

The approach fuses two tuberculosis genes with the goal of directing the immune system to fight drug-tolerant bacterial ...

San Diego County health officials sounded the alarm on Thursday, warning that anyone who set foot on the Southwestern ...

Tufts University researchers’ approach uncovers how TB treatments can best work together at the cellular level to speed better cures Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s deadliest infectious disease—and ...

While tuberculosis spread is not significant nationally, lack of awareness of the latent form of the condition raises ...

Rutgers Health research has uncovered why a relatively new antibiotic for tuberculosis (TB) works against multidrug-resistant strains, potentially inspiring improved treatments and drug development ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Levels of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in China are nearly twice the global average and almost 10 percent of cases are resistant to the most effective first-line drugs, a ...

Finding out what drugs can be used to treat a patient with tuberculosis (TB) can be sped up by days or weeks, thanks to a new free online tool. The new TB-Profiler tool, developed by a team of ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's deadliest infectious disease—and one of the hardest to cure. Standard treatment requires a cocktail of multiple drugs over at least six months, and one in five ...

* TB has plagued humankind for thousands of years * TB kills a person every 20 seconds * Existing BCG vaccine is old and not very good * TB has resurged in the West because of AIDS By Tan Ee Lyn ...