The World Health Organization says more than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year. That's the highest ...
Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious bacterial infection that typically affects the lungs but can impact other organs.
A new study has assessed TB infection and active TB disease during children's first decade of life in high-burden settings. The new results found that there was a consistently high rate of annual TB ...
Primarily impacting the lungs, TB can cause various symptoms, including coughing, coughing up blood or mucus, chest pain, ...
University of Delaware professor Karl Schmitz and his lab recently received a $1.88 million RO1 grant to map the biology of ...
A Lancet study found that children living in areas where tuberculosis is common have a high chance of both getting infected with the TB bacteria and developing active TB disease by the time they reach ...
Reported cases of TB shot up 34% from 2020 to 2023, according to the CDC. Western Europe, Scandinavia and North America are ...
DIslodged by COVID early in the pandemic, tuberculosis is once again the infectious disease that takes the most lives each ...
A prospective birth cohort study conducted in South Africa found that children who grow up in a setting where tuberculosis ...
who identified a rare bacterial infection from the TB family, known as nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). Dr Thakker ...