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

Tuberculosis is the world's deadliest infectious disease, but Queensland researchers think vaccinating via the lungs could ...

Two of the diseases that can have a serious impact on lung function are Tuberculosis (TB) and Pulmonary Fibrosis. While both result in respiratory symptoms and lung injury, they are radically ...

What is TB? Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is a bacterial infection that primarily affects a person's lungs. Its symptoms vary widely depending on how the slow-growing mycobacterium that causes ...

Background: The diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is problematic. There are limited data on the profile of alveolar TB antigen-specific T cells, and their utility for the rapid ...

While there is no tuberculosis outbreak in Texas, here’s what to know about early detection and prevention. Am I required to have the tuberculosis vaccine in Texas?

TB is mostly associated with a deep, painful cough that lasts for weeks. Unlike a cough from a cold or allergies, tuberculosis coughs can bring up mucus and blood from the lungs.

Tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs, has long been considered rare in the U.S. Recently, the Kansas City metro area reported a spike in TB, prompting several ...

In the event of post-tuberculosis exacerbation, after excluding a relapse of tuberculosis, the most common causes are: bacterial or viral superinfections, aspergilloma, thromboembolic and ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that mainly affects the lungs, though it can affect almost any part of the body. Tuberculosis in the throat is a rare type of TB that affects the larynx.

The authors suggest that MCs expressing chymase and tryptase contribute to the pathology of TB and influence bacterial burden, with MC-deficient mice showing reduced lung bacterial load and pathology.

eLife Assessment In this useful study, the authors use published scRNA-seq data to highlight the importance of mast cells (MCs) in TB granulomas, reporting a comparative assessment of chymase- and ...