Picture coming home from traveling the world for six months to find out the cough you couldn’t kick was active tuberculosis (TB). Or imagine finding out your senior year of high school that you’ve ...

Two strains of the bacterium causing tuberculosis have only minor genetic differences but attack the lungs in completely different fashion, according to researchers. Two strains of the bacterium ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A new tiny robot could help identify drug-resistant tuberculosis more ...

A prediction model of prevalent pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in HIV negative/unknown individuals was developed to assist systematic screening. Data from a large TB screening trial were used. A ...

Tuberculosis is caused by a bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, that is thought to have been around for about 150 million years. The first TB infection in a person may have been about 9,000 years ...

A new study published in Nature Communications provides an important new basis for comparing the effectiveness of different tuberculosis treatments. Tuberculosis, a disease caused by the bacterium ...

More than 10 million people are sickened by tuberculosis (TB) globally each year, resulting in 1.5 million deaths. Yet, as many as two billion people are infected with Mycobaterium tuberculosis, the ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, even though it is curable using antibiotics. Most people who die of TB never begin treatment because diagnostics are insufficiently ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Judy Stone focuses her writing on infectious diseases. This week’s high-level meeting at the United Nations on TB marks only ...