A vaccine protects more than 100 million infants each year from severe tuberculosis (TB), including the fatal brain swelling ...

New drugs that target "zombie" tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of ...

An acid-fast stain test is a lab test performed on a sample of body fluid or skin tissue. This test can determine if you have TB or another infection.

A few years later, in 1882, Robert Koch discovered a staining technique that allowed him to see Mycobacterium tuberculosis, finally allowing medicine the certainty that the disease could be fought.

This colorized scanning electron micrograph (SEM) depicted some of the ultrastructural details seen in the cell wall configuration of a number of Gram-positive Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria.

This study aims to investigate the diagnostic value of multicolour nested real-time fluorescence quantitative nucleic acid amplification detection technology [Xpert Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB ...