Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB) in humans. When inhaled, the bacterium can settle in the lungs, where it begins to grow. If not treated, it can spread to ...

A new study by University of Bath scientists has highlighted two new potential families of drug molecules that could open the ...

Tuberculosis remains a major health challenge in South Africa, but professional nurse Nhlanhla Mofokeng is determined to ...

Researchers have identified two new drug families that block a key tuberculosis (TB) enzyme, offering hope for novel ...

Mycobacterium Tuberculosis is a slow-growing organism in human body that leads to tuberculosis. Beginning with an infection, which is further catalysed by environmental conditions and multiply to ...

July 29, 2021 — University of Maryland researchers discovered a way that Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, can cause a person's immune cells to lower ...

Xin Wang et al, Engineered Mycobacterium tuberculosis triple-kill-switch strain provides controlled tuberculosis infection in animal models, Nature Microbiology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41564-024-01913-5 ...

Jan. 18, 2024 — Tuberculosis, caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) kills upwards of 1.6 million people a year, making it one of the leading causes of death by an infectious ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that kills 1.5 million people each year. NIAID “O K, smell this,” says Jeff Wagner, a Harvard postdoc of immunology and infectious disease.

If you have bone tuberculosis, you probably have an underlying lung infection. Your doctor may take a blood or sputum sample and test it for Mycobacterium tuberculosis . Biopsy.

In a new paper published in PLOS Medicine, we reconstructed the "force of infection" for TB—the chance that an individual would become infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis—in 180 countries ...

Tuberculosis is caused by a bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is not very common in the United States. That’s lucky for Americans because researchers have identified a common genetic ...