In Germany, it is often overlooked that diseases once thought to be defeated, like tuberculosis, still exist and that the ...

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

Once thought to have originated in cows and spread through dust, the surprising evolutionary story of tuberculosis reveals why it's so hard to stamp out this ancient disease, writes Carl Zimmer ...

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 ...

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 ...

A $5.8 million grant led by the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, South Africa, will provide user-requested infected human lung tissue ...

A paucity of human lung tissue for study has left a fundamental gap in understanding how the bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, or Mtb, causes disease in people, says Steyn, a ...

Ocular or eye tuberculosis is a rare eye infection that involves the same bacteria as TB in the lungs. Treatment can take several months, but it is usually effective.

Bengaluru: In an advancement for tuberculosis research, scientists at Indian Institute of Science created a novel 3D hydrogel culture system that closely mimics the human lung. This provides a ...