The research also highlights potential avenues for repurposing existing drugs. Researchers found that trimethoprim and ...

COVID-19 did trigger a new setback in the effort to control TB. But most of the reasons the infection persists are ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious bacterial infection that typically affects the lungs but can impact other organs.

Reported cases of TB shot up 34% from 2020 to 2023, according to the CDC. Western Europe, Scandinavia and North America are ...

A prospective birth cohort study conducted in South Africa found that children who grow up in a setting where tuberculosis ...

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 ...

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.

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

Preventive TB therapy in India is focused on protecting high-risk groups, particularly those most vulnerable to TB infection.

A new study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health is the first birth cohort study to assess TB infection and active TB disease during children’s first decade of life in high-burden ...