Digital adherence technologies did not reduce poor treatment outcomes in the four countries investigated. The use of digital adherence technologies should be based on careful review of additional data ...

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 ...

Irvine, Calif., Feb. 24, 2025 — There's an arms race in medicine – scientists design drugs to treat lethal bacterial infections, but bacteria can evolve defenses to those drugs, sending the ...

Anti-tuberculosis drug-induced acute kidney injury is not rare in an aging population. It usually develops within two months of treatment and resolves within three months after onset. Although ...

This important study reveals that disrupting fatty acid metabolism in macrophages significantly restricts the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ... genes restricts Mtb growth in macrophages. (A) ...

Since 1990, tuberculosis rates in the U.S. had been dropping, the result of aggressive control programs and anti-tuberculous drugs. Beginning in 2020, rates have risen every year. It is still not ...

Public health officials hoped that antibiotics would eradicate tuberculosis. However, true to its evolutionary tenacity, the disease has mutated into strains of drug-resistant TB, defined as ...

During the peer-review process the editor and reviewers write an eLife assessment that summarises the significance of the findings reported in the article (on a scale ranging from landmark to useful) ...

tuberculosis is performed. The typical cording formation can sometimes also been seen in nontuberculuos mycobacteria species (e.g., Mycobacterium ... of resistance to all first-line drugs in ...

Molecular Diagnosis and Treatment Center for Infectious Diseases, Dermatology Hospital, Southern Medical University, No.2 Lujing Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou 510091, Guangdong, China Institute for ...

Toll-like receptors (TLRs) were the prototypical PRR fitting the hypothesis proposed earlier by Janeway Jr (19) that there existed inborn sensors in animals for products common among groups of ...