Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have developed a promising new substance for targeting ...

A Boston University (BU)-led research team has found that two compounds acting in synergy could help the body more effectively fight tuberculosis (TB) by tweaking the activation of key macrophage ...

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 ...

A rapid diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) has been approved for the first time by the World Health Organization (WHO). The assay can identify the tuberculosis-causing pathogen Mycobacterium ...

The bacterium that causes TB can hide in liver cells called hepatocytes, and reprogram their metabolism for its own benefit.

Scientists have uncovered important clues to how human T cells combat Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB. La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) is working to guide the ...

Highly localized TB strains are less infectious in cosmopolitan cities and more likely to infect people from the geographic area that is the strain's natural habitat. The research provides the first ...

To find new treatments for tuberculosis, researchers at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH's) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases turned to the natural enemies of the pathogen ...

The WHO algorithms are guided scoring systems that allow physicians to put a child on TB treatment if their symptoms are strongly indicative of TB, even if laboratory tests are unavailable or test ...

Almost forgotten today, tuberculosis (TB) is still one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world. In an interview with Coliquio, Ronald D. Gerste, MD, PhD, an ophthalmologist and historian, ...