tuberculosis

Tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease, is estimated to infect around 10 million people each year, and kills more than…

Tulane University researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind handheld diagnostic device that can deliver rapid, accurate tuberculosis diagnoses in under an…

The Xpert MTB/Ultra molecular diagnostic test for stool samples, until now recommended only for children, could be established as an…

Nolen: The first TB patient that I sat down with in Nairobi was a man who had extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis,…

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a near-perfect predator. In 1882, Robert Koch, the physician who discovered the microbe, told a room full…

Dalvin Modore walked as if there was broken glass beneath his feet, stepping gingerly, his frail shoulders hunched against the…

Tuberculosis lives and thrives in the lungs. When the bacteria that cause the disease are coughed into the air, they…

Working toward more effective tuberculosis (TB) vaccines, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed two strains of mycobacteria with “kill…

A new vaccine that boosts immunity against tuberculosis (TB) has been shown to be effective in pioneering pre-clinical trials, as…

Tuberculosis remains one of the top infectious disease killers worldwide, a challenge amplified by drug-resistant forms of the disease. Now,…