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.

Tuberculosis is once again the infectious disease responsible for the most deaths worldwide, according to a Tuesday ...

Hyderabad: A group of researchers from the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) here has found a potential ...

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 ...

An estimated 1.2 million children develop tuberculosis disease (TB) and 200,000 kids die from TB worldwide each year, but the risk of developing TB infection and disease throughout childhood remains ...

Tuberculosis is again the leading cause of deaths from infectious disease after COVID-19 displaced it briefly during the ...

Primarily impacting the lungs, TB can cause various symptoms, including coughing, coughing up blood or mucus, chest pain, ...

"If a person has latent TB infection, TB disease activation varies from 5% to 15% over a lifetime, but can be higher if a person has multiple risks, such as being an elderly person and/or being ...

A person usually contracts tuberculosis (TB) when they breathe in TB bacteria. In rare cases, the bacteria may travel to the genitourinary tract and transmit between people during sexual activity.