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A new study by University of Bath scientists has highlighted two new potential families of drug molecules that could open the ...
Lack of testing accounts for the highest number of patients lost in the TB care cascade, and stigma keeps many patients from ...
Nunavut's health department has officially declared an end to tuberculosis outbreaks in Pangnirtung and Pond Inlet.
Tuberculosis kills 1.3 million people each year, making it the deadliest infectious disease in the world, write KJ Seung and.
Tuberculosis has a longer incubation period, and the symptoms have a much slower onset. With tuberculosis, a cough will last longer than three weeks and often contains mucus or blood.
Tuberculosis cases in the United States rose 9.4% in the past year after falling almost 20% in 2020, though the latest rates are still significantly lower than before the pandemic, according to a ...
What is TB? Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is a bacterial infection that primarily affects a person's lungs. Its symptoms vary widely depending on how the slow-growing mycobacterium that causes ...
Cases of tuberculosis, which kills more people than any other infectious disease, rose in the U.S. during 2022 — and some doctors are concerned that limitations of testing at the border could be ...
Bacille Calmette-Guérin revaccination shows no efficacy in preventing sustained Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection compared with placebo in adolescents in a phase 2b study.
A student sick with tuberculosis could have exposed hundreds at a Georgia high school, amid an alarming global spread of the disease. Local public health officials identified the infected student ...
A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.
In Green’s telling, he has become obsessed with tuberculosis, seeing it as a window into “the folly and brilliance and cruelty and compassion of humans.” His book’s title is a nod to that.