In Germany, it is often overlooked that diseases once thought to be defeated, like tuberculosis, still exist and that the ...

Tuberculosis (TB) was the leading cause of death in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. By 1900, TB — which ...

New research has found that delivering a stronger form of the tuberculosis vaccine directly to the lungs can help generate ...

Some patients with highly drug-resistant tuberculosis could benefit from a shorter treatment with fewer drugs, while others ...

The WHO’s 2025 policy brief highlights how tuberculosis disproportionately affects marginalized and high-risk populations due ...

Cases of tuberculosis, which kills more people than any other infectious disease, rose in the U.S. during 2022 — and some doctors are concerned that limitations of testing at the border could be ...

Tuberculosis (TB) belongs to infectious diseases leading to the high mortality and morbidity worldwide. Since long-term ...

One fourth of the world’s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis. 1 From a clinical-management perspective, two states of M. tuberculosis ...

Tuberculosis has passed Covid as the top infectious disease killer, despite new medicines and better diagnostic tools. Gifty Gyan, who was diagnosed with tuberculosis in June, was weighed at the ...

When doctors autopsied tuberculosis patients, they described finding round, white swellings, especially in and around the lungs. Medical historian Howard Markel describes how those potato-like ...

The role of tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) in the human immune response to tuberculosis remains unclear. This cytokine may be responsible for some of the clinical manifestations of tuberculous ...