Another concern Hewison points to is that, during the course of treatment, "TB often naturally develops resistance to drugs." When this occurs and the initial rounds of antibiotics stop working ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's biggest infectious disease killer with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) posing a particular threat to global health. A study led by the Swiss Tropical and Public ...

Researchers at the Ragon Institute have made a significant discovery about how antibodies can directly enhance the body's ...

An estimated 440 000 cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) occurred worldwide in 2008 (3,6% of all TB cases that year), but only 7% of these cases were identified and treated. Extensively ...

The bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) may have an "on-off switch" that lets them pause and restart growth, according to a ...

Currently, several states have outbreaks. In Kansas City, where cases have increased 148%, two deaths have been reported ...

Health officials have placed a teenage tuberculosis patient under quarantine after he failed to turn up for treatment as ...

As a respiratory infection prone to drug resistance, TB poses a looming threat to global health security. Progress against the disease rebounded quickly after the disruptions caused by COVID-19 ...

Now, as the Trump administration decimates foreign-aid programs, the U.S. is both making survival less likely for people with TB and risking the disease becoming far more treatment-resistant.

Adequate nutrition doesn’t just complement the treatment of tuberculosis; it is a key component of recovery. Yet government ...

Over a quarter of resistant strains result from transmission between patients The researchers analyzed the genomes of close to 90,000 M. tuberculosis strains from Georgia and many other countries ...