Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

New TB pathogen discovered Date: October 2, 2010 Source: Virginia Tech Summary: In studies of banded mongoose in Botswana, researchers have discovered a novel tuberculosis species in the ...

The surprising discovery of a bacterium in a marine sponge from the Great Barrier Reef with striking similarity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen responsible for tuberculosis (TB), could ...

The tuberculosis pathogen releases its toxin by a novel protein transport system. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 04 / 210408152324.htm ...

Current tuberculosis infection tests struggle to detect the disease in those with HIV. A common co-infection, HIV can hide TB ...

Resistant tuberculosis pathogens are a regular part of the day-to-day business at the Swiss National Center for Mycobacteria (NZM) at the University of Zurich. And yet, ...

Before COVID, TB was the world's worst pathogen. It's still a 'monster' killer : Goats and Soda It was under control. And then it wasn't. In her new book Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped ...

An emerging strain of tuberculosis (TB), closely related to human TB, has been killing banded mongoose in Northern Botswana in significant numbers. This novel pathogen, Mycobacterium mungi, did ...

Kathleen Alexander, associate professor of wildlife in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment, has discovered a novel tuberculosis (TB) species in the Mycobacterium ...

To him, this looked like tuberculosis, ... how that pathogen then manifested as disease—who it killed and how many—has always depended on the social and political context in which it spread.

Pathogen's perspective. Tuberculosis is a respiratory disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacterium that most ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich have mapped the coordinates for all the proteins of the tuberculosis pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Thanks to this "atlas," scientists are now able to easily find ...