Feb. 25, 2025 — Working toward more effective tuberculosis (TB) vaccines, researchers have developed two strains of mycobacteria with 'kill switches' that can be triggered to stop the bacteria ...

The battery-powered device is the first to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis in saliva in addition to blood and sputum.

European tuberculosis surveillance report underscores the gravity of the situation in the WHO European region.1 Across 53 ...

Health ministers from the five Central Asian states signed a joint declaration earlier in April to bolster cooperation on ...

TB can occur in the stomach as well as in the lungs. It occurs due to the spread of bacteria of lung TB. According to ...

Campbell explained that part of that education needs to include awareness that if a patient comes in with a cough, and ...

The number of notified paediatric tuberculosis (TB) cases has increased by 38 per cent in children aged up to 14 years in the ...

The Xpert MTB/Ultra molecular diagnostic test for stool samples, until now recommended only for children, could be ...

Indian Health Services, Yakama Tribal Health and the Yakima Health District are collaborating to address the increase in tuberculosis cases in the Lower Yakima Valley, including areas within the ...

India continues to bear the world’s highest tuberculosis (TB) burden, with over 3 lakh deaths estimated in 2023 alone.

Kuldeep Kumar Grover, head of critical care and pulmonology at CK Birla Hospital, Gurugram, said estimates by the WHO and ...

In Nigeria’s teeming urban centers and far-flung villages, tuberculosis (TB) persists as a quiet scourge, claiming lives with ...