Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, affecting millions annually despite being preventable and curable. Understanding how TB spreads is crucial for both ...

Person-to-person transmission of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis, not the development of new resistance, may be the engine driving the spread of disease in South Africa, according to the ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the second most common cause of death worldwide by an infectious pathogen (after Covid-19), but many aspects of its long history with humans remain controversial. Researchers ...

Aug. 3, 2004 — Even brief tuberculosis exposure may cause transmission, according to the results of a study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of bacteria, Mycobacterium mungi, that causes tuberculosis (TB) and is transmitted through the skin and nose of banded mongoose in Northern Botswana. The ...

The number of human tuberculosis (TB) cases that are due to transmission from animals, as opposed to human-to-human transmission, may be much higher than previously estimated, according to an ...

NEW YORK, June 14 (Praxis Press) Despite improvements in tuberculosis (TB) control during the past decade, Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission continues to occur in the United States. Chin and ...

In the wake of a recent outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) and latent TB cases at a local San Francisco high school, IGHS's Priya ...

Though tuberculosis is rare in the United States as compared to developing countries, the region has some of the highest rates in the state.

The finding upends conventional wisdom regarding coughing, long thought to be the main route of transmission. By Apoorva Mandavilli Upending centuries of medical dogma, a team of South African ...