Although drug-resistant tuberculosis is so deadly in part because some first-choice antibiotics fail to kill TB bacteria, the TB bacteria may also be undermining the body’s ability to defend itself, a ...

The San Francisco Department of Public Health said the risk of TB transmission at the high school was "moderate" during the ...

An international team co-led by the University of Exeter discovered that Mycobacterium tuberculosis hijacks the immune ...

An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has identified several species that produce substances toxic to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacterium that causes tuberculosis in humans. The ...

IISc said this discovery could help develop interventions that prevent tuberculosis bacteria from infecting their hosts.

An antibiotic present in soil may prove effective against antibiotic-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis — the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis, according to a study published in Nature ...

A vaccine protects more than 100 million infants each year from severe tuberculosis (TB), including the fatal brain swelling it can cause in babies and toddlers. But the vaccine doesn't prevent adults ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at the University of Basel created a new test that tracks individual bacteria ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer globally, is the first single-celled organism ever observed ...

San Francisco public health officials have identified three active tuberculosis cases among the school community at ...

Tuberculosis has plagued humanity for thousands of years, and despite medical advances that can now help us prevent and cure it, the ancient bacterial disease still claims more human lives per year ...

There were an estimated 490,000 new cases of drug-resistant TB in 2016. Tuberculosis, a lung disease most often transmitted by breathing infected particles in the air, is the ninth leading cause of ...