A new way to classify tuberculosis (TB) that aims to improve focus on the early stages of the disease has been presented by an international team involving researchers at UCL. The new framework, ...
Many people with tuberculosis stay in the latent infection stage, but some develop the active disease. Both stages are treatable. Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that usually affects the ...
The immune system remains seriously out-of-whack—in an inflammatory state of overactivation and impaired ...
The ancient scourge of tuberculosis for years was the deadliest infectious disease. Then SARS-CoV-2 came along and grabbed the notorious title of #1 killer: In 2020, COVID-19 was responsible for 3.5 ...
A new study from the University of Pittsburgh Center for Vaccine Research published today in the Journal of Experimental Medicine describes a previously unappreciated role for a class of immune cells ...
Scientists have made a discovery that helps explain why humans and animals are so susceptible to contracting tuberculosis (TB ...
Tuberculosis is once again the world’s deadliest infectious disease, and the number of people newly diagnosed with TB reached a new high in 2023, according to new global estimates. Last year, 10.8 ...
A patient who was diagnosed with tuberculosis holds his chest x-rays while consulting with a doctor at the Médecins Sans Frontières clinic in Mumbai, which treats people with drug-resistant ...