The discovery of Mycobacterium lepromatosis suggests leprosy was present in the Americas long before Europeans, altering the historical understanding of the disease.

Galectins form a protein family with a conserved carbohydrate-binding domain that specifically interacts with β-galactoside-containing glycoconjugates, which are found abundantly on mammalian cell ...

This creates “caves” that trap Mycobacterium tuberculosis, known as granulomas. “[Granulomas] change over time, but they’re independent. So the environment that the bacteria are in in one granuloma ...

Granuloma structure and distribution of the antibiotic BTZ-043 in differently stained tissue sections of two tuberculosis granulomas. ... The clinical-stage drug BTZ-043 accumulates in murine ...

Every year, 10 million people contract tuberculosis (TB). Around 1.5 million patients succumb to the disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). The novel antibiotic BTZ-043 ...

tuberculosis; neuropathy; granuloma; Neuropathy may occur in patients with tuberculosis for a number of different reasons. 1, 2 It was originally attributed to alcohol and malnutrition, and more ...

Swimming pool granuloma is a rare infection of the skin caused by Mycobacterium marinum. The primary skin lesion is defined as a blue/red papule or nodule with verrucous surface and secondary ...

“The TB granuloma was always thought to be a host-protective structure in that it either kills the bugs or it sends the bugs to sleep,” says Ramakrishnan. “One of our first major discoveries was that ...

This paper describes a method for incorporating a diffusion field modeling oxygen usage and dispersion in a multi-scale model of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection mediated granuloma formation ...