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 ...

Tulane University researchers have developed a new handheld TB test that significantly improves detection in people with HIV, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

When M. tuberculosis became a human pathogen, it carried on with this same strategy, but now it used it in our lungs, growing inside macrophages instead of amoebae, destroying the immune cells ...

TB-specific scan A–C: FDT-PET/CT scan of a non-infected marmoset lung. D–F: FDT-PET/CT scan of a representative marmoset lung infected with TB pathogen; lesions are indicated by orange arrows.

Tuberculosis is an infectious bacterial disease that has co-evolved with humans for millenia and is “arguably the most successful human bacterial pathogen,” the authors wrote.