For 70 years, clinicians thought they knew the shape of tuberculosis granulomas in the lungs of patients. Histology -- the study of microscopic structures in thin slices of lung tissue in the ...

This lack of three dimensions means histology can miss important pathophysiologies in the damaged lungs of patients with tuberculosis, or TB, and COVID-19, the two deadliest infectious diseases of ...

Histology, in contrast, reveals the microscopic anatomy of biological structures. ... atlas of the spectrum of lung lesions in both tuberculosis and COVID-19, at near-microscopic levels.

New research has found that delivering a stronger form of the tuberculosis vaccine directly to the lungs can help generate ...

Testing for tuberculosis is fairly straightforward in most cases, but existing tests don't work for everyone because they require something not everyone, especially kids and people with HIV/AIDS ...

More information: Kaori L. Fonseca et al, Unravelling the transcriptome of the human tuberculosis lesion and its clinical implications, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60255-w ...

Previous tuberculosis in Gambian children was significantly associated with impaired lung function and health-related quality of life, according to a cross-sectional comparative study published in ...

Tuberculosis and lung damage: from epidemiology to pathophysiology, published in European Respiratory Review by Shruthi Ravimohan, Hardy Kornfeld, Drew Weissman, Gregory P. Bisson (2018): https ...