Tuberculosis lives and thrives in the lungs. When the bacteria that cause the disease are coughed into the air, they are ...

Scientists discovered genes in the tuberculosis bacterium that becomes essential for the pathogen's survival when it's exposed to air through coughing. These genes could be targets for new therapies ...

Tuberculosis bacteria rely on a family of genes that help them survive the challenging journey from one person’s lungs to another person’s during coughing, sneezing or talking, according to ...

Poor treatment adherence remains a major obstacle in national tuberculosis programmes globally. Digital adherence technologies offer novel opportunities to monitor and address poor adherence. Research ...

Deputy Director of the Centre for Tuberculosis Research ... Improving access to diagnosis and care will lower TB transmission. To end TB, whether in the US, UK, or globally, we would do well ...

Tuberculosis spreads when an infected person coughs, speaks, or sings, releasing germs that someone else inhales. That is the only known mode of transmission. TB germs are not spread by shaking ...

Reports of TB date back to around 410-400 B.C.E., when the physician Hippocrates termed the disease phthisis, an archaic word that means a progressive “wasting away,” due to the way people with the ...

Tuberculosis, spread by air, is not as contagious as COVID-19, and no risk of transmission exists unless people are exposed to an infected patient, especially in closed spaces or at close quarters ...

You may have seen reports of an outbreak of tuberculosis in Kansas City and thought: Oh, no! Is this the start of something bigger? Do you need to worry? First, the facts: The tuberculosis ...

With one of the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in US history, Kansas has more to worry about than its recent Super Bowl ...