Scientists have made a discovery that helps explain why humans and animals are so susceptible to contracting tuberculosis(TB) ...

Using human stem cells, scientists have created a miniature lung that mimics breathing and TB infection, opening new ...

A highly contagious and potentially deadly disease is seeing sharp upticks—and that's in addition to the measles outbreak we're dealing with already. Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that ...

Since 2021, Kentucky has had 118 confirmed cases of TB, according to information from Louisville's health department.

A sugar on mycobacteria binds to the immune receptor dectin-1 on host macrophages, helping the bacteria survive and driving ...

This CDC illustration shows what the tuberculosis bacteria looks like. A Broward high school and Miami’s federal detention center have each confirmed an active case of tuberculosis, one of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about health and U.K. health policy. Although it's often thought of as a disease of the past, tuberculosis is still found ...

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Ocular TB is a rare eye disease due to infection from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the same bacterium that causes tuberculosis, commonly known as TB. TB symptoms usually start in the lungs, but they ...

Before SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, spread across the world in 2020, tuberculosis was responsible for more deaths globally than any other infectious disease. But thanks to targeted ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The county's Tuberculosis Program is working with the Metropolitan Transit System to notify riders of the trolley's Blue Line that they were potentially exposed to and are at risk ...