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.

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 ...

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

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

There is a tuberculosis vaccine available in the United States, but it’s not widely used or recommended, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The Bacillus Calmette ...