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.

Our results may be used to reduce technician involvement in screening for TB, and would be particularly useful in laboratories in countries with a high burden of TB, where, typically, ZN rather than ...

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

Unfortunately, clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains rapidly become resistant to bedaquiline, predominantly by overexpression of MmpL5. The proteins MmpL5 and MmpL4 are efflux transporters, ...

Rationale Associations between urban (outdoor) airborne particulate matter (PM) exposure and TB and potential biological mechanisms are poorly explored. Objectives To examine whether in vivo exposure ...

Chemists found a way to identify a complex sugar molecule in the cell walls of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the world's deadliest pathogen. This labeling could lead to simpler, faster TB tests.

Tuberculosis (TB) can enter the skin directly or move there from the blood, lymph nodes, or bones if it moves beyond the lungs. Learn more here.

The search for new tuberculosis drug targets under traditional laboratory methods has historically proven to be arduous and time-consuming due in part to the difficulty of understanding how new ...

A TB blood test can find out whether you have the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria in your body. Whether you need to get tested and how often depends on your specific circumstances.

Significance For centuries, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, has remained one of the greatest killers of humankind by a single infectious organism. Mycobacteria use ...