Vitamin D supplementation during TB treatment improves patient symptoms, but does not accelerate the clearance of TB bacteria.

Tuberculosis is a communicable disease caused by infection with the tubercle bacillus (also known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis or M. tuberculosis), most frequently affecting the lungs.

However, most people get infected with TB don’t get sick, according to NCDHSS. That’s because their bodies can fight the ...

FILE - This 1966 microscope photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli, the organism responsible for causing the disease ...

Health officials confirmed a person at a West Michigan high school was diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB). On Jan. 31, 2025, the Kalamazoo County Health and Community Services Department notified ...

In countries with high rates of TB infection, infants are often given the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine, (BCG). Doctors in the U.S. don’t generally recommend it because TB isn’t a ...

This study presents TBorNotTB, a CDSS designed to improve TB evaluation and streamline isolation decisions, reducing labor while maintaining detection accuracy.

tuberculosis antigens when given therapeutically. After chemotherapy, vaccines can be used for inoculation to reduce the probability of regrowth of the remaining latent bacilli.