Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years.

Bangladesh is unlikely to meet its 2025 targets adopted under the WHO’s End TB Strategy in 2015 as the country is struggling ...

If global tuberculosis funding isn't restored, years of progress could be lost, mortality rates may rise and tuberculosis ...

They engineered a strain of M. tuberculosis carrying a triple kill switch, which uses three independent molecular mechanisms to kill the bacteria. Even in severely immunocompromised mice ...

Contact tracing among family members of tuberculosis (TB) patients is crucial in preventing the spread of the contagious ...

Tuberculosis bacteria rely on a family of genes that help them survive the challenging journey from one person's lungs to ...

Working toward more effective tuberculosis (TB) vaccines, researchers have developed two strains of mycobacteria with 'kill switches' that can be triggered to stop the bacteria after they activate ...

(AP) Two preclinical research addresses the difficulty of designing bacteria that are safe for use in controlled human infection trials or as improved vaccinations. While tuberculosis is under ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that usually affects the lungs but can spread to other parts of the body, including the skin. Once it reaches the skin, TB can cause a variety of lesions ...

Tuberculosis lives and thrives in the lungs. When the bacteria that cause the disease are coughed into the air, they are thrust into a comparatively hostile environment, with drastic changes to ...