The worldwide burden of childhood tuberculosis is twice as large as once thought, according to a new study that estimates nearly 1 million children become sick with the disease every year. TB is the ...

San Antonio, Texas (February 15, 2020) - Researchers at the Southwest National Primate Research Center (SNPRC) at Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) may have found a new pathway to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The incidence of subclinical tuberculosis among people with HIV in a South African study was similar to the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The system outperformed human analyses by 9% and exceeded WHO requirements for non-sputum triage tests for TB.

A study of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB)in KwaZulu province, South Africa, builds on a growing body of evidence showing person-to-person transmission, not just inadequate treatment, ...

In an advance that could change tuberculosis treatment worldwide, researchers in Seattle and South Africa have identified markers in the blood of infected people that may predict those at high risk ...

Vietnamese doctor Truong Duc Thai and a colleague check the X-ray film of a drug-resistant tuberculosis patient at National Lung Hospital in Hanoi. TB kills more people than any other infectious ...

A new blood test being developed in the United Kingdom has been shown to not only identify those infected with human tuberculosis (TB) but also identify those most at risk of developing it. A new ...

Tuberculosis (TB), an ongoing infection control concern in long-term care, is more likely to be spread by breathing than by its distinctive cough, according to a new study that may contradict decades ...