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 remain plagued by delays, inaccuracies, and resource limitations. These methods ...

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 ...

Postmortem examination showed widespread miliary tuberculosis; culture confirmed the presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis causes fulminant hepatic failure rarely and only three cases ...

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 ...

In BALF mNGS group, the main pathogens detected included Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and Haemophilus influenzae (HI). The sputum culture group mainly included: MTB, HI.

A new study by University of Bath scientists has highlighted two new potential families of drug molecules that could open the ...

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

Tuberculosis treatment is shortened to six months by the indispensable addition of pyrazinamide (PZA) to the drug regimen that includes isoniazid and rifampin1,2. PZA is a pro-drug of pyrazinoic ...