Emerging drug-resistant strains are posing significant challenges to the global fight against tuberculosis (TB) and it is a critical task to detect treatment failure as early as possible.

An outbreak of the infectious lung disease TB in Kansas is one of the largest ever recorded in the US. What is TB, and why ...

Dec. 3, 2024 — An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has identified several species that produce substances toxic to the bacterium that causes the human disease tuberculosis. The ...

The Kansas City metro area is experiencing the largest outbreak in U.S. history, with low risk to the general public, Kansas ...

Tuberculosis (TB), a major global health issue, affects millions worldwide with latent and active infections. This airborne ...

China Tuberculous meningitis (TBM), a severe form of non-purulent meningitis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), is the most critical extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) manifestation, with a ...

State Key Laboratory of Ultrasound in Medicine and Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China ...

During the peer-review process the editor and reviewers write an eLife assessment that summarises the significance of the findings reported in the article (on a scale ranging from landmark to useful) ...

Forty patients with pulmonary tuberculosis were tested. The test was completed in 29. Biopsies were obtained in 22 patients exhibiting palpable or visible residua. None showed sarcoid granulomas ...

Branches are colored according to the M. tuberculosis complex lineage: pink for lineage 1, blue for lineage 2, purple for lineage 3, and red for lineage 4. Discrete heat maps next to the phylogeny ...