For most people in the Western world, the mention of tuberculosis is likely to conjure up images of the Victorians. In richer countries, tuberculosis is, for the most part, a thing of the past. But TB ...

New research from Curtin University and The Kids Research Institute Australia mapping tuberculosis (TB) cases in Africa could help dramatically improve diagnosis, treatment and prevention of the ...

Landon is a 3-year-old boy who, two years ago, became fussy and had a seizure. He had drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) meningitis. After 21 months of taking difficult drugs and almost three months in ...

SEATTLE, WA – Despite decades of research on the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), scientists have not had a comprehensive understanding of how the bacterium is wired to adapt to changing ...

Tuberculosis is a preventable and treatable disease, yet 1.5 million people died from TB last year–including 360,000 people who were HIV positive. Today’s map comes from the World Health ...

The World Health Organization just released an exhaustive new report about the global fight against Tuberculosis. This first map shows the areas where TB rates are highest. And this is where TB ...

As TB cases declined in the Western world in recent decades, so did the funding to deal with the disease. But TB, an airborne bug that spreads best when the infected are left untreated in crowded ...

Researchers have taken the first steps toward a complete representation of the regulatory network for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This map will yield unique insights into how the bacteria survive in ...