Delayed sputum conversion and high treatment failure are common in patients with bedaquiline-resistant TB, urging faster ...

A brain abscess is a rare but life-threatening infection. Learn how advances in imaging, surgery, and diagnostics are ...

Despite longstanding reliance on sputum smear microscopy, culture methods, and chest X-rays, conventional TB diagnostics ...

Canada's food inspection agency is looking into a case of bovine tuberculosis in Manitoba. Officials with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) say the case was discovered in a cow that came from ...

From a genetic perspective, Hansen's Disease is caused by either the globally dominant Mycobacterium leprae or the newly ... been proposed for other notorious diseases such as plague, tuberculosis, ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis), the causative agent of tuberculosis, still causes higher mortality than any other bacterial pathogen until now. With the emergence and spread of multidrug ...

Canada is still considered to be officially free of bovine TB, as isolated cases can occur. All areas of Canada have been ...

For this purpose, the researchers enrolled 109 patients with confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis, diagnosed through Mycobacterium tuberculosis culture. The participants were divided into two groups based ...

According to the mNGS results, initial antipathogenic treatment was modified in 67.27% of patients. In BALF mNGS group, the main pathogens detected included Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Mycobacterium ...

Diagnoses were accepted if the patient had: (1) a positive culture for Mycobacterium tuberculosis; (2) had been culture negative but AFB smear and/or nucleic acid amplification assay positive (TB ...

Bacille Calmette-Guérin revaccination shows no efficacy in preventing sustained Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection compared with placebo in adolescents in a phase 2b study.

Although PZA is active only against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, ... For M. tuberculosis labeling experiment: Culture at an O.D. 600 nm of 0.4 was diluted 10 times into a fresh 7H12 media, ...